Children of Tax and Tea: Norse History for Bostonians Illustrated

Children of Tax and Tea is a full-color, heavily illustrated, hardback humorous history book about the vikings written in the charmingly profane tone of a foul-mouthed Bostonian. Basically, imagine an inebriated Mark Wahlberg movie character unloading all sorts of informative and factual knowledge about the Viking Age on a captive audience.

The book stems from McSweeney's longest-running column, "Norse History for Bostonians," that humor writer Rowdy Geirsson created in 2010 and that comic a...