The Long Ships
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Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny - courageous and above all lucky - is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he is initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and returns home an off-the-cuff Christian and a very rich man, though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination.
Packed with pitched battles and blood feuds, and told throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson's book is a splendid adventure that features one of the most unexpectedly winning heroes in modern fiction.
©1954, 2010 Frans G. Bengtsson; translation copyright 1954 by Michael Meyer; Introduction copyright 2010 by Michael Chabon (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
And what should I say - it was even better, much better than the reading!
This is really a rare occurence, as once you have read the book, almost every other media fails to match it. But definetely not in this case. The speaker Michael Page delivers such a fine storytelling, that I would gladly give him 6 Stars, if possible. His voice and his intonation are simply marvelous, illustrating the story in an unmatched way. He is by far the best speaker I´ve come across. Now I am looking for other audio books spoken by him, as I am rating the art of his story telling even over the content itself.
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