The Vikings in Brittany

by Neil Price

Vikings in Brittany

Genres: History

122 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Neil Price is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of Viking Age Scandinavia and the archaeology of shamanism. He is currently a professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Born in south-west London, Price went on to gain a BA in Archaeology at the University of London, before writing his first book, The Vikings in Brittany, which was published in 1989. He undertook his doctoral research from 1988 through to 1992 at the University of York, before moving to Sweden, where he completed his PhD at the University of Uppsala in 2002. In 2001, he edited an anthology entitled The Archaeology of Shamanism for Routledge, and the following year published and defended his doctoral thesis, The Viking Way. The Viking Way would be critically appraised as one of the most important studies of the Viking Age and pre-Christian religion by other archaeologists like Matthew Townend and Martin Carver.

Reviews

[Jorgon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ratings on such material are largely pointless; those who have an interest in this sort of thing will enjoy and benefit from it; those who do not should leave it alone. "This is the sort of thing that the people who like this sort of thing will like". :)

[Konstantin Petrov · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good short conclusion of the presence of the Vikings in Brittany. Even though the Vikinga presence in Brittany was not as much as in other regions, it has still left some permanent traces, the main of which are pointed out and explained in the book. I have now more places to visit when in France!