The Long Ships
✍ Scribed by Bengtsson, Frans G
- Book ID
- 106967665
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 733 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781590174166
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Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s _The Long Ships_ resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson’s hero, Red Orm—canny, courageous, and above all lucky—is only a boy when he is abduc
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson’s hero, Red Orm—canny, courageous, and above all lucky—is only a boy when he is abducte
THE ACTION of The Long Ships covers, approximately, the years 980-1010 of our era. At that time the southern provinces of Sweden belonged to Denmark, so that Orm, though born and bred in Skania, regarded himself as a Dane.1 The Vikings harried the countries of northern and western Europe more or l