Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson
A rollicking, picaresque saga that follows a red-haired Swedish youth whose restless courage pulls him from his home into the violent, cosmopolitan world of the Viking age: he fights in raids, serves aboard longships, is taken into foreign courts and the Muslim-ruled coasts of Iberia and North Africa, and survives a string of adventures and misadventures that test his loyalty, wit and honor; the narrative mixes vivid battle scenes, travelogue detail and dry humor as it traces his growth from hotheaded warrior to a man who eventually returns to settle the life he left behind.
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- Published
- 1941
- Nationality
- Swedish
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- Original Language
- Swedish
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- Red Orm
- The Long Ships
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