![]() ![]() This novel has obvious parallels with the Norse Vinland saga. The brothers have similarities with Loki and Balder respectively. Significant scenes include the death of one of the raiders, Havlock Ingolfsson, whom Harald abandons to die on a skerry, and Harald's death at the hands of Heome, the mad handless brother of heroic Wawasha. In a great battle, it is revealed that he is a berserker. Harald's final fight takes place among the native tribes. He and his crew encounter Inuit and then Native Americans. ![]() The chase leads him across the Atlantic Ocean to the east coast of America. When his village is attacked, he forms a crew of Vikings and pursues the raiders. Just five years later, undeterred by his first desperate journey, the dauntless warrior puts to sea once again, in The Road to Miklagard - this time lured by. The goal: to plunder the helpless coastal villages of Britain. Harald is now a mature man, and enjoying a peaceful life of farming with his wife and sons. Vikings Dawn sees a young Norse boy, Harald Sigurdson, set sail for the Hebrides in the longship Nameless. Eventually Harald returns home to Norway via the great ship-portage on the Dnieper. He has a complicated series of adventures which takes him to a giant's treasure cave in Ireland, then Jebel Tarik (Gibraltar), then to Miklagard (the Viking's name for Constantinople) where he joins the famous Varangian Guard. ![]() Harald is now a young man, his father has died. They come to grief on an island in the Hebrides. Harold is an adolescent who sails with his father on a raid to Scotland. ![]()
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