CHILDREN OF TAX AND TEA IS SET FOR RELEASE ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 AND AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER AT THE RETAILERS SHOWN BELOW (AND EVERYWHERE ELSE HARDBACKS ARE SOLD, TOO).
***Signed copies will also be available at Etsy!***
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 “Norse History for Bostonians,” a column written by Rowdy Geirsson for the McSweeney’s humor website since 2010 and illustrated by Matt Smith since 2017. Children of Tax and Tea compiles, revises, and expands the extensive repository of the original online column for this book. Whereas the column was specifically targeted towards proper Massholes familiar with the regional Boston dialect, Children of Tax and Tea is for everyone (except actual children due to the abundance of profanity).
The text thus presents a smooth-flowing, easy-to-read narrative while maintaining the tone of the original online column. So that means if you’ve ever wanted to learn more about Harald Fairhair’s egregious taxation without representation policies or the intense Norse-Irish rivalry with old York, you will finally be able to do so without needing to decipher the incomprehensible accent of a drunken Bostonian.
The book achieved “Project We Love” status and successfully funded on Kickstarter in September 2025.
Children of Tax and Tea consists of 40 chapters with deeply honest and insightful titles about Norse history such as “False Advertising in the Era of Viking Age Exploration,” “Shit-Talk at the Law Rock,” and “How to Get Paid to Stop Attacking Paris.” It also includes a foreword by the knowledgeable law-speakers of the Saga Thing podcast, Andy Pfrenger and John Sexton.
Some sample images follow below and more information will be updated here as the release day approaches.
