{"id":14037,"date":"2020-08-06T18:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2020-08-06T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:07:12","slug":"new-viking-book-by-neil-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14037","title":{"rendered":"New Viking book by Neil Price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Via our friend Dave Lull,<\/strong> a London Review of Books review<\/a> of Neil Price’s new book on the Vikings: Children of Ash and Elm<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of several vignettes, Price imagines a younger son on the impoverished west coast of Norway, whose childhood sweetheart has a new brooch: a present from a boy who spent a successful summer raiding. What is young Orm or Gunnar going to do? Not only does he need money for the bride-price paid to her family, he needs a reputation: \u2018The act of acquiring silver was as important as the silver itself.\u2019 And if he went raiding he might in any case acquire a woman for free. DNA has shown that \u2018a very large proportion \u2013 even the majority \u2013 of female settlers in Iceland were of Scottish or Irish heritage.\u2019<\/p>Looks like the kind of book a man of my pretensions needs to read. It’s coming August 25th.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via our friend Dave Lull, a London Review of Books review of Neil Price’s new book on the Vikings: Children of Ash and Elm. In one of several vignettes, Price imagines a younger son on the impoverished west coast of Norway, whose childhood sweetheart has a new brooch: a present from a boy who spent … Continue reading New Viking book by Neil Price<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,15,16],"tags":[488,1695,1992,3272],"class_list":["post-14037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-reviews","category-the-press","tag-children-of-ash-and-elm","tag-london-review-of-books","tag-neil-price","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}