The characters seemed well described to me and, having read all the Bernard Cornwell Viking books, it is good to find that books between good authors are consistant. With red hair, a Gaelic given name (Euan) and a Viking sirname (Thomson) I have to identify with a people who could have been my ancesters. Because of my absence from the book at times I found the detail of boat building a bit long, although interesting. I liked the period-accurate settings of the story and characters. A little hesitant because commitments meant that it took about 3 weeks to read - a long time for a book of this size and I had to think about where I was at each time I opened it. He fights his way to wealth and in an epic battle, defending his king against overwhelming odds, he finds that it was not destiny, but betrayal that sent him into banishment thirteen years earlier. However, destiny strikes, forcing him to flee from Greenland to Ireland to England to Norway without her. Halldorr believes his life is his to command when Freydis, the fierce, fire-haired enchantress, at last desires to be his wife. He became bodyguard to a king, brutally fighting in monumental battles - Maldon and Swoldr - to be handed down for centuries in skaldic verse.īecause of a blood-oath made years before the murder of his father, Halldorr was adopted by an exile, Greenland's discoverer, Erik the Red.
Instead, he found himself exiled, resigned to a life of raiding, killing for plunder and survival. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.The Norseman is the first volume of the vividly-detailed historical chronicles of Halldorr, an orphan whose entire desire was to lay beside both a warm hearth and a plump wife, but fate had another thread to spin.
Because of a blood-oath made years before the murder of his father, Halldorr was adopted by an exile, Greenland’s discoverer, Erik the Red. He became bodyguard to a king, brutally fighting in monumental battles - Maldon and Swoldr - to be handed down for centuries in skaldic verse. The Norseman is the first volume of the vividly-detailed historical chronicles of Halldorr, an orphan whose entire desire was to lay beside both a warm hearth and a plump wife, but fate had another thread to spin.
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