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 Comprehension Guide
Author: Emily FischerPublisher: Veritas Press
ISBN: 9781930710795
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Red Keep
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 1883937299
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Conan, a young squire in twelth-century Burgundy, is determined to find a way to defeat the fearsome Sauval brothers, a pair of robber barons who pillage and terrorize the local countryside.
The Lost Baron
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 9781883937539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Martin's first day as a page is also his last when the Baron mysteriously disappears and his visiting relative and heir takes charge of the castle.
Big John's Secret
Author: Eleanor M. JewettPublisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 1883937892
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Mystery surrounds the young peasant boy known as Big John. Raised during the strife-filled days of the reign of King John of England, his life is one day changed when a knight says, in passing, “You remind me of someone—someone I once knew and loved.” It is from “Old Marm,” the herb woman, that John understands that injustice has been done his family. Though never telling him the family name lest he unwittingly betray himself, she does all she can to prepare him to one day reclaim his name and family honor. Then Old Marm dies, and John is left without a clue to his identity. In the next years John’s unusual size and strength and the knowledge he has gained of letters and of the art of healing earn him a place as page to an earl organizing the 5th Crusade. In the Holy Land John searches for a father he hopes is living still. Amidst battle, capture and setbacks, John—now a squire to a Knight Hospitaller—encounters Francis of Assisi, who had come to the Holy Land just at this time to preach the Gospel to the Saracens. It is another meeting that changes the course of Big John’s life. . Illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman.
Beorn the Proud
Author: Madeleine A. PollandPublisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 9781883937089
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Beorn, a pagan Viking from Denmark, becomes a better ruler as a result of the influence of Ness, a Christian girl he took from Ireland as his slave.
The White Company
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN: 3963764759
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Red Falcons of Tremoine
Author: Hendry PeartPublisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 9781932350159
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Leo, a fifteen-year-old orphan, discovers that he is the heir to two feuding families.
Victory on the Walls
Author: Frieda Clark HymanPublisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 1883937965
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Bani, though born in Jerusalem, has lived from infancy with his uncle in beautiful Susa, the city of the Persian King Artaxerxes. Now, his Uncle Nehemiah wants to leave his position of high honor as Cupbearer to the King to return to Jerusalem, a city in ruins and beset by every kind of trouble! Nehemiah's request of the king, permission to return to help his own people, could so easily—in an empire riddled with political intrigue—be misconstrued as treasonous scheming. Bani himself is given an unexpected part to play, the outcome of which is to forever change his life. Seen through the eyes of Bani, this novel dramatizes a turning-point of history, in 445 BC, when—through confrontation and daring risks—Judaism was re-established in the Promised Land, and purified for her unfolding mission.