A Viking Slave's Saga
Author: Jan Fridegård
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
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Author: Jan Fridegård
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judson Roberts
Publisher: Judson Roberts
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0578076438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe's the son of a chieftain and a princess--yet Halfdan was born a slave. Now he is becoming a man and it is time for him to meet his destiny. Though raised a slave who could only dream of freedom, young Halfdan's fate may be about to change. If freed, he may train as a Viking warrior, and come to know the glories of true brotherhood and the horrors of unspeakable evil. In the world of Vikings, a warrior's destiny is forged in the heat of battle. If the fates decree it, Hafdan may emerge as a new hero . . . a new myth . . . and perhaps a new legend.
Author: Jan Fridegard
Publisher: Viking Slave Trilogy
Published: 2023-08-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781953947024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweden ́s great saga of the Viking Age, The Viking Slave Trilogy, is steeped in Norse myth and pagan ritual recounting the sensual but often cruel demands of the gods Odin, Thor, and Frey.
Author: Judson Roberts
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2006-06-13
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780060799977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young man only at peace when he is at war Young Halfdan is a slave. He is crafty with a bow and arrow and wise in the ways of the animals, but he can only dream of a warrior's life. That is, until the dark day a Saxon's blows lay his father on his deathbed, and his mother makes a tragic bargain for Halfdan's freedom. A boy's destiny can come at the most terrible price. Halfdan must suffer a grave loss in order to grasp what he most desires: to train by, to live by, and, if the fates decree it, to die by the force of his sword and the swiftness of his arrow. He is to be a warrior -- a great warrior. Bloody, furiously paced, heart-wrenching, and unflinching, this is a story of a land where the destinies of boys and men are forged in the heat of battle. Young Halfdan shall come to know the glories of true brotherhood and the unspeakable horrors of true evil. In this first book in a saga teeming with thrilling details of the Viking world, young Halfdan emerges as a new hero . . . a new myth . . . a new legend.
Author: Jan Fridegård
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final volume in a famed trilogy of historical (Viking) novels by Swedish author Friedegard (1897-1968), originally published in 1949 and translated, with a foreword and notes, by Robert E. Bjork. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Jan Fridegard
Publisher:
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780988176461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn epic of warrior chieftains, their women and their slaves. Land of Wooden Gods, book 1 of the Viking Slave Trilogy tests belief in the Norse Gods and the sacrificial rituals of Old Scandinavia.
Author: Stefan Brink
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0197532357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe result of my research was turned into a book published in Swedish in 2012. This present book is a revised translation and extensively extended version of that book.
Author: Angus A. Somerville
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-11-20
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 148757049X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings. The third edition has been reorganized into fifteen chapters. Many sources have been added, including material on gender and warrior women, and a completely new final chapter traces the continuing cultural influence of the Vikings to the present day. The use of visual material has been expanded, and updated maps illustrate historical developments throughout the Viking Age. The English translations of Norse texts, many of them new to this collection, are straightforward and easily accessible, while chapter introductions contextualize the readings.
Author: Rosalind Kerven
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0785835555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in consultation with leading academics.
Author: Griff Hosker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781519229410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel set in England in 790 AD A young Saxon boy and his mother are captured by Viking raiders and taken to a new home. Thanks to an old one armed warrior he finds his true destiny. He wins his freedom and becomes a Viking himself. Forced to sail the seas for a new home they have to fight to establish their own kingdom on the Isle of Man. A tale full of battles set in the early years of the ninth century.