Author: Verner von Heidenstam
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Swedes and Their Chieftains
Author: Verner von Heidenstam
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Swedes and Their Chieftains
Author: Verner von Heidenstam
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Book Notes Illustrated
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Supplement, 1953
Author: Isabel S. Monro
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
The Sweden Year-book
Author: Helmar Gustaf Emanuel Eneborg
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Short Story Index
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.
Publisher:
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.
A History of Sweden
Author: Carl Grimberg
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Translated by the American teacher C.W. Foss
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Translated by the American teacher C.W. Foss
The Sweden Year-book
Author:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Publisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Long Ships
Author: Frans G. Bengtsson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017416X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A beloved Viking saga and masterpiece of historical fiction, The Long Ships is a high spirited adventure that stretches from Scandinavia to Spain, England, Ireland, and beyond. 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 abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take this place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he is initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and returns home an off-the-cuff Christian and a very rich man, though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination. Packed with pitched battles and blood feuds and told throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson’s book is a splendid adventure that features one of the most unexpectedly winning heroes in modern fiction.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017416X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A beloved Viking saga and masterpiece of historical fiction, The Long Ships is a high spirited adventure that stretches from Scandinavia to Spain, England, Ireland, and beyond. 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 abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take this place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he is initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and returns home an off-the-cuff Christian and a very rich man, though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination. Packed with pitched battles and blood feuds and told throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson’s book is a splendid adventure that features one of the most unexpectedly winning heroes in modern fiction.