The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature.
E.M.C. Van Houts, University of Cambridge "Writing the history of women in early medieval Europe is a big job, and Bitel is the first to undertake it in a book-length study." Sixteenth Century Journal ...
His setting out of these contexts is as lucid and informative as his writing on the economy per se ... "This social and economic history of medieval Europe has a geographic framework that stretches ...
The Latin words "fili" (son) and "viri duo" (two men) are distinguishable on the stone A 1,300-year-old piece of Cornish slate inscribed with rare writing ... a "major early medieval settlement ...