The Long Ships : A Saga of the Viking Age Condition:Well Read a wonder—and a revolution in

a wonder—and a revolution in the novel

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but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that brings into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade

We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers

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The Long Ships : A Saga of the Viking Age Condition:Well Read a wonder—and a revolution inFrans Gunnar Bengtssons 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. Bengtssons hero, Red Ormcanny, courageous, and above all luckyis only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he