Scandinavia + Scandinavian history

Book Reviews

• Sverre Bagge: Cross and Scepter
  The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation
• David H. Caldwell, et al.: The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked
  - their provenance, background, and styling
• Eric Christiansen: The Norsemen in the Viking Age*
  - a descriptive survey staying close to the evidence
• Michael Crichton: Eaters of the Dead
  - the Beowulf story from the perspective of an Arab traveler
• Dorothy Dunnett: King Hereafter*
  - a historical novel about the real Macbeth
• Per Olov Enquist: The March of the Musicians
  - a novel about labour unrest in Sweden's bleak north
• Owe Martinsson, Jerzy Lesinski: Siberian Larch
  Forestry and Timber in a Scandinavian Perspective
• Pasi Sahlberg: Finnish Lessons 2.0
  What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?
• Cora Sandel: Alberta and Jacob*
  - coming of age in a small town in northern Norway
• Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter*
  - a family saga set in medieval Norway