The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

The illustrations and photos are many in number, generously sized, of very high quality, with a goodly number in color, including many very rare photos. Neil Price's genius consists in his peerless ability to hold data together in his attention, understand its significance, and bring it into a seamless whole. He has updated the references to "late 2018," and added some "35,000 words to the original work, plus a new chapter assessing the current research. His descriptions of the archaeological data are exquisitely detailed, illustrated and photographed. It is a 'must have' handbook on seidr, and that is the book's focus. Everything else revolves around what can be known or surmised about seidr, the Northern magical technique. His assessments of other researcher's works are knowledgeable, thoughtful and fair. Like everyone else, I've waited for this book to be finished and published for 7 years. Price apologizes in the intro and says he hopes people think the book was worth the wait. Absolutely, yes, Neil Price, it was worth the wait.

I only just received it, so I've only had a chance to glance through it. I had realized somehow that it was so big, and hardcover! Its like a textbook. Flipping through i see some very good photographs of artifacts, and quite an extensive table of contents (i wish the printing in the table of contents wasn't so small, but the rest of the book looks fine). It looks like a very well researched with great info. I look forward to delving into it.

I have been waiting to get this book for soooooo long. Neil price is a amazing author an historian. This is the only book out of my very wide collection on heathen topic that list ALL 200 names of odin. That to me just throws it at the top of my favorite list.

This is a highly academic book, and you may start to snore at the finer details. However, there is so much great information in this study and I learned so much myself that I have to give it a 5.

Worth it worth it worth it

Very detailed, well researched and impossible to put down once you get into it.

Excellent book. There are lots and lots of books dealing with the Vikings, but I have been disappointed in most of them. Not this one. The author, Neil Price, really knows his stuff. If you want well documented and well presented material on this topic, you can't go wrong in getting your paws on this book.

Been waiting 2 years for this and it’s everything I hoped it would be.

Awesome book, everyone with interest in viking history should read

Amazing information quick delivery just fantastic

Ouvrage très documenté, mais qui ne se lit pas comme un roman. Attention, c'est pointu. Si ma mémoire est bonne, au départ, il s'agissait d'une thèse, donc ce n'est pas un ouvrage de vulgarisation. Ne vous attendez donc pas à du Victor Hugo, ou pour rester dans la sphère "viking" à du Régis Boyer (le traducteur et spécialiste français de la culture scandinave ancienne).

Tolles Buch, ein Must-Have in jeder Buchsammlung zum Thema Wikinger.

I think any people having interest in the viking era beliefs should read this book, which is from far a pure reference with a huge amount of references ! It put very interesting perspective on understanding how old scandinavian beliefs are much linked to shamanism construction.