Rethinking the Vikings

I have never been much interested in the Vikings, thinking of them simply as over-indulging their violent hobbies while wearing silly hats with horns. However, the article The Immortal Viking (July) has made me want to read more about them. This, surely, is what your magazine aims to do, so thank you. It also raises the wider point of the relationship between history and myth which interests me. Revd David Sherwood, Hastings