Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Ignore the Dumezilian prattle, and you've got a winner.

Pollington does two things that make me very happy. He cites his sources, and he tells you what assumptions he is making. So, it is easy to ignore him when he goes off on Dumizilian-style tripartate healing theory (which is utter bunk).The rest of the book is very useful. He brings together a lot of material that is extremely difficult to track down. His translations are reasonable and accurate, if not inspired. It is well organized, and he gives a lot of context from Latin and Greek sources.Pollington isn't New Age. This isn't some Llewellyn "how to be an authentic Anglo-Saxon witch" fantasy. This is serious scholarship. However, it is readable enough to be of use to most Anglo-Saxon reconstructionists, with enough meat to satisfy a true scholar.