Ben Raffield Author & Editor

Neil Price is Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden. A leading expert on the Viking Age, his fieldwork, teaching and research have taken him to more than forty countries. He specializes in Viking-Age ritual, religion, identity, and world-view, with a particular focus on mortuary behaviour, amongst many other topics. Neil’s books and other publications have appeared in twenty languages, and he is a frequent consultant and contributor to television and film.

Ben Raffield is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University. He specialises in the study of the Viking Age, with a particular focus on conflict and violence; captivity, slavery, and social inequality; and cross-cultural interaction in Scandinavia and the wider early medieval world. He has published his work in a range of peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and he is currently working on several book projects