08-03-2009, 02:15 PM
Quote:For a strongly critical review of Speidel's related book, Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas (London, 2004), see David Woods in German History 23 (2005), 557-58.
I did not find this article but I found two other reviews of this book. One was a very forgiving review that notes the mistakes but is trying to be polite. The other is a scathing review of the book that finds everything wrong with the book that I find wrong with the "Beserks: article I started this thread about. Basically he talks about his incredibly reaching theories, his willingness to accept the most outlandish epics or poems as pure fact, and his using of the smallest of similarities to link events or cultures.
Timothy Hanna
