Author: Allen FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Author: Allen FrenchTHE STORY OF ROLF AND THE VIKINGS BOW - A YA Viking Adventure
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 882955054X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This story about Rolf, a youth and son of Hiarandi the Unlucky, who lives in early Christian Iceland during the days when the Icelandic society was transforming from the old Norse religion to Christianity. At the urging of his wife, Hiarandi does an unprecedented thing and lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, challenging the accepted custom which places lucrative salvage at higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and eventually, the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. Rolf loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to a scheming neighbour. Then he is outlawed from Iceland at the Althing (Council) and travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck, enslavement, Viking berserkers, and many other dangers and adventures. All the while, Rolf searches for a way to prove his father was killed unjustly and win back his own property and freedom. Even more difficult, Rolf must end the cycle of enmity, vengeance, and pride that hangs like a curse over his family Rolf's response to the injustice done to him creates a suspenseful, thought-provoking and page-turning tale which is difficult to put down. ============ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Rolf and the Viking’s Bow, Norse, Archery, , abroad, Althing, Asdis, ashore, atonement, baresarks, beacon, beserkers, blood, bow, Broadfirth, carline, chapmen, cliffs, cloak, Cragness, crags, Earl, Einar, evil, father, Fellstead, Flosi, Frodi, Gisli, gold, Grani, Grettir, Hallmund, Hallvard, Hawksness, heart, Helga, Hiarandi, home, Iceland, judges, Kari, Kiartan, kinsman, Kolbein, money, mound, neighbours, Ondott, Orkney, Outlaw, outlawry, Priest, Quarter, Rolf, Scots, sea, shepherd, shield, ship, shipmaster, shoot, smithy, smote, Snorri, son, storehouse, storm, strength, Sweyn, sword, Thorfinn, thrall, Thurid, Tongue, travel, Vemund, vengeance, viking, warship, weapons, whittle, winter, witnesses, wounds
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625585306
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Rolf is the son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife, does an unforgivable thing: he lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, challenging the accepted custom that place lucrative salvage at a higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. This tale exemplifies the effect of Christ's teachings upon the Icelandic people during their heroic age. The book is set in Iceland in the days when Christianity has come to the island though the old customs still linger.
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546327578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow: Large Print By Allen French
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Author: Allen FrenchThe Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Author: French AllenPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318067190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Author: A. FrenchThe Story of Rolf
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149285
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A young Viking bowman in 11th-century Iceland is determined to avenge his father's death.
STORY OF ROLF, AND THE VIKINGS BOW
Author: ALLEN. FRENCHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033514160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Story of Rolf, and the Vikings Bow (Classic Reprint)
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330612576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Excerpt from The Story of Rolf, and the Vikings Bow From thirty to sixty years ago appeared the greater number of the English translations of the Icelandic sagas. Since then the reading of these heroic tales has so completely gone out of style that their names are rarely mentioned in schools or even colleges. What boy feels his blood stir at the mention of Grettir? How many lovers of good reading know that the most human of all epics lie untouched on the shelves of the public libraries? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.