Laughing Shall I Die

`As tough and uncompromising as the Viking heroes whose lives and deaths it recounts, Tom Shippey’s book also shares their dark sense of humour . . . Shippey upsets entrenched positions, dissects legend from history, and reveals how the Vikings were able to dominate in the North for more than three centuries.’ – Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval European Literature, University of Oxford.

Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus of Saint Louis University, Missouri, and concurrently Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His books include J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2010), The Road to Middle Earth (4th revd edn, 2004), and Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (2017).