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A fascinating if shallow introduction to Vikings. Kudos to the author for picking a viewpoint and sticking to it: if you were a young upstart looking to get started as a Viking, this book would make a great campaign planner.

If you're looking for something a little deeper about Norse culture, you'd be better served reading the sagas themselves. Njal's Saga, for example, is eminently readable even to the modern reader and gives great insights into how people spent their time when not a-viking.

Also, yes, other reviewers' observations of unnecessary and distracting sexism are spot on. Sure, the Vikings weren't equality-minded, but a woman's dowry remained her property even after marriage, and recent archeology shows grave sites with female remains surrounded by weapons-- not what you'd expect from reading this book.