A succinct description of the country's development from the first settlements to the current century, ideal for those who have so far only heard or read about the Vikings. Sometimes the languages slips a bit into resembling more a transcript of a junior high school lesson than of a lecture for adult public (and indeed where most writers would probably present a table with some demographic statistics, the author prefers to narrate some historical anecdote or a tale about a particular person), but not really annoyingly so. My only two quibbles are too much space dedicated to WWII, and numbering of monarchs with Arabic, rather than Roman, numerals (in an English text, "King Harald 5" looks more like the name of a third-rate Hollywood fantasy movie than of the current monarch).
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