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Brown: Song of the Vikings
I love books. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love books. My grandmother taught me to read by sitting beside me on the living room couch and reading the newspaper comics to me and getting me to...
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Viking women
Nancy Marie Brown in Song of the Vikings says that “Marriage in Iceland had long been business transactions, arranged by the couple’s families….The bride’s family supplied a dowry, the groom’s...
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Song of the Vikings: poetry
When I was reading and commenting on Wakeful Nights, Vidar Hreinsson’s biography of Stephan G. Stephanson, I was puzzled by the importance that the Icelandic North American and Icelandic communities...
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Snorri Sturluson: traitor hero
Nancy Marie Brown. Song Of The Vikings. New York: palgrave macmillan, 2012. 239 pages. There are books I read quickly, racing through the sentences, the paragraphs, the pages. There are books I read...
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