Other novels based on Scandinavian sagas: War of the Gods appears on the list of The 45 Best Historical Novels Set in the Viking Age More about War of the Gods at Powell's Books or Nordic culture, and is a useful introduction to the mental world of the Viking The Gods offers a well-imagined version of the mythic underpinnings of The reader’s sympathy is drawn to include more than just the humans caught inĭestiny’s web, extending to well-meaning but imperfect gods, likeable giants,
More credulous than most readers will be about the uncanny one-eyed man whoįrom time to time appears to guide his fate, his imperfect awareness is noĪuthorial oversight, but instead part of a deep-laid concept that emerges onlyĪt the very end, when we understand at last the reason for the novel’s title. Go as planned, and whose loves do not always end idyllically. Hadding is a sympathetic hero, whose battles do not always Of the Viking Age would have believed about their predecessors in the centuriesīefore they began to sail out from their northern homes to ravage much of Europe. It provides a well-shaped vision of what the warriors Steadily away from the supernatural and toward a mostly human struggle of warring Grows up as a foster child in a household of giants and must one day leave his Of Norse mythology before moving on to the tale of a prince called Hadding who
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This story, taken from the Danish history of Saxo Pits a powerful human figure against adversaries that include mythic beasts and Poul Anderson skillfully reshapes one of the tales that survived the muddle ofĮarly Scandinavian history in the form of Heroic-Age Saga.
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