An excellent history of the late Viking Age. The author focuses on telling it through the career of Olaf (later St Olaf) as well as Cnut the Great. He has fine touch and tells the stories with the right amount of detail.
An excellent history of the late Viking Age. The author focuses on telling it through the career of Olaf (later St Olaf) as well as Cnut the Great. He has fine touch and tells the stories with the right amount of detail.
Great storytelling. Saxon England during the time of the Viking invasions. This book reminded me very much of the The Last Kingdom tv series, but without nearly as many graphic war scenes. Book 1 of a series. I'm looking forward to reading more!
This was my #BookedInTime selection for January - Early Medieval
#ThemesMotifs&Tropes - A Ship
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Dragons are so not my thing, so if I have to read a book about them, it‘s either gonna be really cute or really sexy. I went with cute! This was such a good little story (which I didn‘t know anything about because I‘ve never seen the movie) and David Tennant did a fabulous job on the narration!
#pop24 - book that features dragons
#bookspinbingo
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Cultural Atlas of the Viking World by Colleen Batey, Helen Clarke, R. I. Page, Neil S. Price, edited by James Graham-Campbell
📖 The Folk Arts of Norway (second enlarged edition with 219 illustrations including 20 in full color) by Janice S. Stewart
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans
@Cuilin @dabbe Here are my selections for January's and February's #bookedintime themes.
January brings me a different Bernard Cornwell series, this time featuring Uhtred of Bebbanberg and Alfred the Great.
February isn't technically the 1917 revolution but the reign of Nicholas and Alexandra and the events leading up to it.
I bought a paper copy of this for the nephew and then decided to listen to the audiobook. David Tennant did a fabulous job narrating. However, I was not expecting this to be so different from the movie and maybe that impacted how much I liked it. Anyway, I‘m going to give this one to him for his birthday next year. In the meantime, I might have to revisit the movie.
This is amazing. The sagas are laid out really well and easy to read. The way it is written is unputdownable, and it isn't too graphic that a child wouldn't be able to read it and enjoy it. I loved it and will definitely read it again. Of course, it is only a hand-picked selection of saga stories, and obviously, I cannot account for how true to the traditional sagas it is, but I think it's pretty close to what I've heard before.
Another action packed, devastating volume in this epic historical manga based on Nordic history. 4.5⭐️