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Referenced when discussing the Wild East frontier towns, with Neil Price describing the atmosphere as being like Deadwood - saloons and rough trading posts along the Viking eastern routes.

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Referenced when discussing how to understand Viking expeditions to the East, with Shippey comparing the Vikings to trappers and traders in North America, paddling down rivers and trading with or fighting indigenous tribes.

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Described as a wonderful children's book about a boy captured in Wessex, taken to the slave markets in Dublin, who eventually travels down the rivers and ends up in Constantinople.

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Referenced when discussing the slave trade, with the book's argument being that the Caliphate was so economically advanced that Europe could mainly only provide slaves as trade goods.

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Described as a fabulous magical realist novel from the early 1980s by a Serbian novelist, about the Khazars and their conversion to Judaism.