This overview is helpful, as it immediately establishes Roesdahl as an expert on her subject and also diminishes any concerns around speculation or fictive aspirations. The Vikings starts out with a brief preface, two busy maps, and a short introduction before digging into a basic overview of the discipline’s sources.
Originally published in Denmark in 1987, this third edition is dryly and unambitiously assembled, though the author’s engagement with her field is second to none.
Else Roesdahl’s The Vikings over-delivers in terms of authorial knowledge, yet doesn’t entirely succeed in terms delivering said knowledge in a page-turning manner.
The writing of history for popular consumption is a painstaking process that requires both an incredible knowledge of the subject an author is approaching yet also a deft hand in relaying the nuances of that subject in an entertaining manner.
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