Wolf Age The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
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Biographical note
Tore Skeie is one of Norway's most acclaimed historians, having written several prize-winning and bestselling works of medieval history. Tore is known for his eye for historical and human drama, while his books have been praised both for their thrilling style and the way they challenge traditional nation-oriented historical narratives. The Wolf Age was a bestseller in Norway, won the prestigious Sverre Steen award and is the first of Tore's books to be translated into English.An impressive depiction of the Viking world in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Tore Skeie deploys his scholarship with a light touch, not so much evoking this bygone age as fully inhabiting it
- Michael Jones, author of The Black Prince,
A vivid chronicle of events that shaped the early medieval North, taking a mature and humanising view of who the Vikings really were: major power players on a European stage. Tore Skeie's book has won awards in Norway, and it's easy to see why. This is exemplary popular history
- Neil Price, author of The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings,
The first major book on the Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English. Focusing on a period of about 30 years after the turn of the first millennium, Skeie constructs a pacy, dramatic account of an extraordinary period in European history... a properly absorbing page-turner... a truly excellent book
The New European
Gripping and compelling. This is the story of Medieval Europe and its neighbours like it has never been told before where there's no hero nor villain, just men fighting for power and glory. Skeie masterfully tells their complex stories and brings these men back to life
- Estelle Paranque,
Shows how intimately our nation's early history was bound up with that of Scandinavia
The Bookseller
Hugely readable...richly imagined, vividly described
- Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford), author of Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes,
An illuminating history which is as vivid and engaging as the sagas
- Blackwell's, Bookseller Review,
The Wolf Age is a fascinating tour across England and Scandinavia in the 10th and 11th centuries, bringing together epic tales of bloody battles, invasions and back-stabbing treachery. I loved it!
- Read Bookshop Holmfirth,
I was delighted by the book. I am a history graduate and have read few books so riveting. Tore Skeie brings a distant time to life vividly, it's a joy to read
- Jaffé & Neale Bookshop,
Tremendously well-written... Masterfully executed
Stavanger Aftenblad, 6 out of 6 stars
This true story is like The Lord of the Rings, only better...What a wonderful tale this is!
Dagbladet, 6 out of 6 stars
Remember this name if you've never heard it before: Tore Skeie. What guts, what talent for writing and storytelling this historian and author has! Just hold on tight: The Battle of the North is almost like reading in a wind tunnel. There is a force to this material that pulls the reader from the present day back through the centuries
VG, 5 out of 6 stars
Tore Skeie lets the sources sprinkle poetic stardust on his down-to-earth prose...The portrayals of the caliphate in Al Andalus and of the Anglo-Saxon realm in themselves are worth the price
Klassekampen
His books are of immense literary quality; he has a grip on the material and a sense for drama that is the mark of a true writer...The reader is taken along on the voyage into the unknown, the writing delighting in a way that history books seldom can
Dag og tid
Skeie has a unique ability conjure images of the richest detail, everything from chaotic battles to the period's exhausting day-to-day life
A-magasinet
If you're going to read one book that explains the Viking era, this is a great place to start
Trønder-Avisa, 6 out of 6 stars
The turbulent age that straddles the first millennium is brought to life in a history worthy of a modern television epic
Financial Times
'Here is a man with a gift for bringing to life the backstabbing, plotting, bribery and warfare of this period and for helping you think about the whole Viking era in a new way'
- Dr Sam Willis, presenter of the BBC's Sword, Musket and Machine Gun: Britain's Armed History,
Skeie's account of ruthless conflict, political intrigue, and diplomatic machinations reads like a real-life Game of Thrones-without the dragons. Medieval history buffs will be riveted
Publishers Weekly