Ferocious Common Sense Author:John Louis Anderson Ferocious Common Sense is a contemporary translation of the ancient Nordic book of wisdom, The Elder Edda, combined with evocative photographs from around the world, from Stockholm, Sweden to Antarctica; from Cairo, Egypt to the north Atlantic's Shetland Island. Ferocious Common Sense is a moving and witty insight into... more » the past, a heart-felt contact with people living in the first millennium whose lives and concerns were very much like our own.« less