Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O'Brien (REVIEW) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015

This is the biography of the woman who was to marry two kings (Aethelred “the Unready” and Cnut/Canute) and is set in eleventh century England. She was great-aunt to William the Conqueror and saw two of her sons crowned.

I picked this up, along with a few others when I went to a book sale last week. It’s a good introduction to Emma and the situation England faced a little while before the Norman Conquest. Very interesting, if perhaps a little dry. There may not be heaps and heaps of source material available, but it does show that O’Brien worked very hard in producing a great introduction to this fascinating time in history.

Pages: 264 (including Epilogue, Chronology, Notes, Select Bibliography and Index)

Currently reading Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Last updated January 01, 2015