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The Saga of Thorstein Vikingsson is a complex tale of adventure, spiced with sorcery, trollish opponents and dwarfish helpers, of curses and magical swords, of Viking raiding and romantic love matches. A long and somewhat rambling work of thrills, spills and adventures comparable to a 1930s movie serial, it acts as a prequel for the more renowned Saga of Fridthjof the Bold. It begins, like many such sagas, in a mythological landscape leavened with a scattering of euhemerisation to keep the priests happy, but rather than featuring gods like Odin the main characters in the first chapter are giants. From them comes a heroic stock whose adventures and feuds we follow through two generations.The saga is most notable both for its fairly realistic portrayal of vikings going about their business of plundering, warring, and fighting other vikings, and its detailed accounts of the occult beliefs of the pagan Northmen. Spells for breaking free of fetters, dream interpretation, guardian spirits, berserk frenzies, magical potions, curses, trolls and dwarves, magic swords and a talking ship, Ellidi, which also features in the Saga of Fridthjof, all this and more appear. The saga as a whole is comparable with one of the more extravagant chivalric romances popular on the Continent in the Middle Ages, or the heroic fantasy of modern bookshelves.
ASIN : B07QVH2W4P
Publisher : Thor’s Stone Press (April 20, 2019)
Publication date : April 20, 2019
Language : English
File size : 283 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 125 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : B0CL6TS1NL
