148. The Vikings Go East

“Neil Price has a lovely thing in his book, The Children of Ashen Elm, where he says it's basically Deadwood.”

“Tom Shippey in his book, Laughing Till I Die, about the Vikings, he has a nice section about how...”

“This was the subject of a fabulous novel, I think written in early 80s, by a guy called Milorad Pavic, a Serbian novelist, called Dictionary of the Khazars, which is kind of a magical realist novel.”

“There's a wonderful book by Rosemary Sutcliffe called Blood Feud, where it's the story of a boy, I think it is, who is captured in Wessex.”

“Have you read, come across Michael McCormack's book, Origins of the European... I haven't. It's a really, I mean, it's a massive book.”