Long Ships (Bengtsson - paperback)

Author: Frans G. Bengtsson

ISBN: 9781590173466

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Red Orm—canny, courageous, and above all lucky—is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings, from whom he then is captured by the Moors in Spain, and from whom he finally escapes from captivity, washing up in Ireland where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks. Eventually, Orm will contribute to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and return home an off-the-cuff Christian (and a very rich man).