追寻真实的维京人：尼尔·普莱斯的新书《海王与女巫》

The stories we tell about the Vikings often say more about us than them. A fascinating book tries to show the Norse as they were, says Michael Marshall Book The Sea-King and the Sorceress Neil Price Allen Lane (UK) Basic Books (US), out 13 October The first thing to understand about the Vikings is that the people we label Vikings never called themselves by that name; it wasn’t their ethnic identity in the way “Roman” or “Puerto Rican” has been. The Old Norse word víkingr probably meant something like “pirate”, explains Neil Price on page 2 of his richly informative new book, The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and death in the Viking Age. …