"Not the least of Price's achievement is to rescue Viking history from the grasp of white supremacists who claim a specious lineage with it. He does so not by asserting any sort of moral superiority for the Vikings–theirs was a brutal society that practiced human sacrifice and slavery, as Price makes abundantly clear–but by restoring their rich and strange particularity....I'll long remember Price's evocation of the wafer-thin squares of gold, stamped with images of otherworldly beings, that adorned the great halls where visitors drank and fought and recited poetry. Firelight would have animated those static images. Price has done something similar here."–Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, The Best Books We Read in 2020