Old Vikings Never Die…
Because Vikings never get old. They die in battle, or from their wounds--sometimes years later. Or, like everyone else, they fall victim to diseases that nobody knows how to cure. But Thorkell inn ha′vi has survived, long after almost everyone he’s ever known has gone to their graves. He is an old man offering his memories in the hope that his name will live on after he’s gone—he hires a story-teller to help make that happen. The interplay of his present perspective and his recollections of his younger years makes this a novel about how we may change, and about the extent of our honesty about our past.
Although Viking Warlord: A Saga of Thorkell the Great is based on the historical record, like the popular musical Hamilton, it is a unique blend of history and imagination. Fans of the fiction of Bernard Cornwell, Robert Low, and James L. Nelson will appreciate this story. My first novel, Eadric and the Wolves, deals with the same period from an English perspective.
Amazon product ASIN 1727325508
Because Vikings never get old. They die in battle, or from their wounds--sometimes years later. Or, like everyone else, they fall victim to diseases that nobody knows how to cure. But Thorkell inn ha′vi has survived, long after almost everyone he’s ever known has gone to their graves. He is an old man offering his memories in the hope that his name will live on after he’s gone—he hires a story-teller to help make that happen. The interplay of his present perspective and his recollections of his younger years makes this a novel about how we may change, and about the extent of our honesty about our past.
Although Viking Warlord: A Saga of Thorkell the Great is based on the historical record, like the popular musical Hamilton, it is a unique blend of history and imagination. Fans of the fiction of Bernard Cornwell, Robert Low, and James L. Nelson will appreciate this story. My first novel, Eadric and the Wolves, deals with the same period from an English perspective.
Amazon product ASIN 1727325508
