![]() Vikings: Life and Legend by Gareth Williams et al ![]() Blood Feud is the tale of a British slave who wins his freedom by saving his Viking master’s life, becomes his blood brother and joins him on a quest for vengeance that takes them from Scandinavia to Byzantium.Ĩ. ![]() There’s a good English translation by WH Auden.Ĭhildren’s historical author par-excellence Rosemary Sutcliff wrote in many different eras and settings, but always with honesty, authenticity, a tight efficiency of language and an unforgiving toughness with her characters and her readers. Who could give a better insight into Viking thinking than the All-Father, old One-Eye, Odin himself? Havamal, also called the Word of the High One, gathers together sage advice from the Chief of the Gods to man on how to be a good guest, a safe traveller, and an effective lover, in the form of 165 poetic stanzas. Skafloc, a mortal child stolen by elves, and the berserk Valgard, the changeling left in his place, are drawn into the endless battle between elves and trolls, and the schemes of Odin, with tragic consequences. The Broken Sword is a short, savage, dark and strange fantasy that imitates the feel of Norse sagas. Published in the same year as the Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, American SF author Poul Anderson drew upon many of the same influences as Tolkien, but with very different results. ![]()
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