✦ LIBER ✦
Meadowland
✍ Scribed by Tom Holt
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0748113541
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. When the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time talking with two veterans, who have a remarkable story to tell; the Viking discovery of America.As he records the story, years later, he also considers its effect on the fourth member of the party; a young Norwegian guardsman who went on to become King Harald Hardradi, who died invading Englandin 1066 ...