This book is beautiful.
The way Lisa crafts the environment, full of similes and metaphors, is stunning. Modern interpretation and analysis of the women who appear in the Sagas are so often maligned without examining their circumstances. Here, the author understands the: conflict, the constraints, and the expectations that bind them, without applying our modern attitudes to the situation. After all, it can inform the way we read the Sagas, but it shouldn't affect our understanding of it.

Viking Women: Life and Lore, is the book I have been longing for. A fantastic combination of years of detailed research and, exciting and imaginative narratives. An absolute triumph for the subject area.

Well done to the author for writing a book so different and so compelling. Something, I am sure, took considerable guts in pitching, and executing to such a high standard. I look forward to seeing which characters the author approaches next.