The Viking World shield maiden as well as the magical

as well as the magical use of Psalms to cure or curse

and largely forgotten by students of the occult

the world of humans

they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse

Mark Atherton here shows how the stories

The Viking World shield maiden as well as the magicalFilling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together todays leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history,