The Long Ships Author:Frans Gunnar Bengtsson In 500 pages of thundering adventure, The Long Shops calls up the age of the dragon-prowed Viking ships and the red-bearded giants who fought and wenched and plundered from the coast of Ireland to the Black Sea. — Red Orme, born the son of a pirate, master of his own ship and afraid of no man... — Toke, scarred by a hundred wild battles and stron... more »g enough to slash a man through with one blow of his sword...
Harald, broad-chested, heavy-paunched king of the Danes, equally ready for a feast or a fight...
In the story of Red Orme's voyages, Frans Gunnar Bengtsson -one of Sweden's greatest poets and historians - has created an epic novel of adventure on land and sea.