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Publisher: Crux Publishing Ltd (December 6, 2014)
Publication Date: December 6, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
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Lars Brownworth's "The Sea Wolves" is a nice introduction to the Vikings. The strength of the book is that it aims at a general audience, refusing to get bogged down in scholarly disputes (some of which are noted in passing, others of which are passed over silently). It's a narrative, with thumbnail sketches of significant figures, and quite readable.The book has two main weaknesses. The first is that it was evidently rushed into print by a second-rate editor. For instance, a footnote on page 134 refers to "the following ruse" where the author clearly meant "the preceding ruse." Elsewhere, we read "suite" for "suit." On page 159, Tyrker, Leif Erikson's "foster-father," loses "her" way. Comma-usage is spotty and irregular. Errors of this kind crop up often enough that it's irritating.Perhaps, too, a more gifted editor would have curtailed some of Brownworth's stylistic excesses. He has a light-bordering-on-smarmy tone that runs away with him at times. Describing the murderous Hastein as a "nuisance" to the Franks once (on page 128) is cute. Doing it twice (again one paragraph later) is obnoxious. This also tends to misdirect the reader emotionally: there was nothing light or entertaining about the northern raiders, and while Brownworth clearly aims to play the lightly-ironic history teacher, in print he just feels strangely disconnected from his subject.Second, the subtitle promises a "HISTORY" of the Vikings. But there's history and then there's history. The scholarship in this book, while not precisely _wrong_, is a bit shallow. This is always a tricky criticism in a book that so obviously means to popularize the subject and to make it easy: Brownworth doesn't intend to write a scholarly book, just one that's responsible to the scholarship. He is after all a high school teacher, not a research professor, which means that he probably concentrates on breadth rather than depth of knowledge.That's not necessarily a weakness, but the book must be read with this in mind: if your knowledge of the Vikings is small, this won't bother you at all. If you know much about them at all, the book won't increase your knowledge, and you might find yourself suspecting that Brownworth is unintentionally misrepresenting some events by keeping them light. After all, history takes a little precision and sobriety. But for all that, it's not a bad book.
If you're looking for an exploration of Viking customs and culture, this probably isn't the book for you. Rather, it explores the profound impact of the Vikings on future history across the entire map of Europe, from Ireland to Russia to Byzantium (yes, you read that correctly--Byzantium). It's rather mindboggling to consider that Harald Hardrada--the Viking invader that the Saxons had to fight off mere weeks before they lost to the Normans (Frenchified Vikings) at Hastings--had previously traveled east and south through nascent Russia (founded by Swedish Vikings) and served as a commander in a special Byzantine imperial guard unit that had been made up of Vikings for generations. The world was not small to the Vikings, who also discovered the Americas centuries before Columbus.My only real complaint about this book is that it lacks a few extra sentences here and there that could have made it clearer what events were were happening at the same time in the various parts of the widespread area of Viking influence. Perhaps an appendix timeline could have served the same purpose, but it doesn't have one, leaving the reader to try to keep track (something that might have been easier with a paper copy rather the Kindle edition I read).
I finished this book on my flight tonight. I've listened to two podcasts from Lars Brownworth: "12 Byzantine Rulers" about a selection of Roman emperors after the fall of the West...actually, now that I think about it, at least one of them was before that, Diocletian. It provided the inspiration for a much longer podcast series that I also enjoyed, "The History of Rome." And "Norman Centuries," a history of the former Vikings who took back to the sea and made war across the Channel in England, and in the Mediterranean in Sicily and the Holy Land.I enjoyed both of them. They showed his key strength, writing a lengthy, coherent narrative about a story in history, while tying the story into wider world history in many places.This book did not disappoint. It traces the Vikings leaving their homes in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, mostly Danish Vikings brutally attacking the Carolingian Empire, then its successor states the Francian kingdoms. Mostly Norwegian Vikings went west to Shetland, Orkney, Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and the America. Mostly Swedish Vikings went East and founded a kingdom in the Slavic lands, including much travel all the way to Constantinople and service for the Emperor, when they weren't fighting against him. The kingdom they founded developed into Russia, Ukraine, and Belorussia.He once again did a great job at telling a gripping story, and tying it to dozens of previously (to me) unrelated stories in Europe, in the East, and in the West. I know much more about European, American, and Russian history after reading this book, and I enjoyed it!
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