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“... line to be scalped was a corrupt TV game-show host. Whither The gentle, humane Quizmaster-ship of Magnus Magnusson, or the calm and bespectacled Bamber Gascoigne?            Sweet day, so cool, so calm, So bright, on which I don a shirt that cries out For cufflinks, and sports Embroidered initials on the right-hand cuff; on Which I opened a ...”

“... his own exhibition, and showing a typically daft Hollywood epic on The Vikings, has permitted Magnus Magnusson to concentrate his peripatetic interests on his first and greatest scholarly love, the world of his ancestors. The laudable result is that the General Reader now has a better chance to understand up-to-date academic thinking on the Vikings ...”

“... Wheeler’s Maiden Castle dig before the war, and by Wheeler himself, Daniel and latterly Magnus Magnusson on television after it. Archaeology was thus increasingly identified with the special skills of excavation. At the same time, the popularity of the subject led to a burgeoining of university chairs and departments. The result, and this irony ...”

“... at Bergthorsknoll. The saga has a cast of about a hundred, conveniently listed at the back of Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson’s old Penguin translation. It was written – we don’t know by whom – late in the 13th century, after Iceland had lost its long independence and become a province of the Norwegian kings, and it looks back, perhaps ...”

“... England. In Scotland, Petrie suggests, a similar sense of frustration benefited the SNP.In 1961, Magnus Magnusson had given Scotsman readers a portrait of the ‘World of Scotnattery’. Scottish nationalism, he noticed, was becoming strongest ‘out in the country, in the towns and burghs, in places where there is still sufficient sense of a common ...”

“... with no interest in contemporary fashion. We were thought to take after our fathers, who venerated Magnus Magnusson and Peter Jay, anybody who looked like the besuited officials that a century of colonial education had taught them to defer to. On Friday nights, when many teenagers were out necking bottles of cheap cider or haggling for lovebites in ...”