They are Viking's Dawn, The Road to Miklagard and Viking's Sunset. The Viking Trilogy is a trilogy of juvenile historical novels by Henry Treece.
There’s a particular focus on the lives of semi-legendary figures like Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Lothbrok and Ivar the Boneless, and on how the coming of Christianity altered the whole Scandinavian culture and way of life.Viking Trilogy Viking's Dawn, The Road to Miklagard, Viking's Sunset The Hammer and the Cross by Robert FergusonĪ comprehensive and readable history of the Viking age that voyages as far as the Northmen themselves, via Iceland and Greenland to North America, down the rivers of Russia to Byzantium and beyond. As a boy he raids in Scotland, as a young man he travels the rivers of Russia and joins the Varangian Guard in Byzantium, and as an old man goes on a quest for vengeance that takes him via Iceland to the distant shores of North America.ġ0. Treece’s trilogy: Viking’s Dawn, the Road to Miklagard, and Viking’s Sunset, tells of three voyages in the life of Norwegian Harald Sigurdson. More tough and uncompromising children’s fiction with a dark heart and a feel of historical authenticity. This companion book to last summer’s groundbreaking Viking exhibition at the British Museum uses detailed photographs of the exhibits to present the latest theories on Viking culture, trade, power, and religious belief. 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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