The Viking-Age Rune-Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia

Extremely detailed analysis … The Viking-Age Rune-Stones has many strengths. The result of years of painstaking work, it demonstrates an intimate knowledge of the late Viking-Age rune stone corpus and its background … The Viking-Age Rune-Stones has brought a wealth of important data to the attention of the scholarly community. ― Saga-Book

The secions on the patterns of social order and inheritance will make this book an indispensable example of runology applied to social history, a line of study with a future. It is worth buying for the careful tabulation of inscriptions and motifs alone. ― English Historical Review

This is a stimulating book, challenging accepted interpretations and suggesting new sources for Viking Age social history. ― R.I. Page, Times Higher Education Supplement

Thorough statistical coverage, backed up by a seventy page “Catalogue” … her work puts the English-speaking reader for the frst time in possession of the basic information painstakingly recorded by Scandinavian scholars, as well as providing an entirely fresh and convincing explanation of the Viking Age corpus … Birgit Sawyer [has] offered models of patient and dispassionate research in potentially exciting and contested areas. ― Tom Shippey, Times Literary Supplement