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Title: Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age by John Haywood ISBN: 0-500-01982-7 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Surprisingly flawed but still worthwhile
Comment: I've read the whole of the section for A and just started on B (about 30 pages) and there is a lot of good information in this book - both for the less knowledgeable and for those whose subject this is but who could do with a quick reference work. There are also useful bibliographical references and the black and white photographs are good.
What is surprising though is the awful typography - yes, this is important because firstly the fonts used for this book don't appear to have the very important Old Norse letter eth - ð - resulting in using eths from another font (which looks absolutely awful) and secondly, all the very important Scandinavian letters like ö and ä are used seemingly at random - sometimes words have them and sometimes they don't. This is not a minor detail: it amounts essentially to misspelling important place names and the like. Whether this is the author's or the publisher's fault I don't know.
Furthermore, anglicization of Scandinavian names and words is bad enough, but even worse when it is done inconsistently, as in this book - some names are given in Old Norse, others in their modern English "equivalents". Very sloppy and strange.
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Title: The Oxford History of the Vikings (Oxford Illustrated Histories) by Peter Sawyer ISBN: 0192854348 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones ISBN: 0192801341 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Cultural Atlas of the Viking World (Cultural Atlas of) by Colleen E. Batey, Helen Clarke, R. I. Page, Neil S. Price, James Graham-Campbell ISBN: 0816030049 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (Penguin Historical Atlases) by John Haywood ISBN: 0140513280 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Vikings by Else Roesdahl ISBN: 0140252827 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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