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The Greatest Viking

The Life of Olav Haraldsson

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The Greatest Viking

Auteur(s): Desmond Seward
Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
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A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved, or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered, and London Bridge pulled down. The loot amassed from years of plunder helped Olav win the throne of Norway, and a century after his death he was proclaimed "Eternal King" and has been a national hero there ever since.

Despite his bloodthirsty beginnings, Olav converted to Christianity and, in a personal vendetta against the old Norse gods, made Norway Christian too, thereby changing irrevocably the Viking world he was born into. Told with reference to Norse sagas, early chronicles, and the work of modern scholars, Desmond Seward paints an intensely vivid and colorful portrait of the life and times of arguably the greatest Viking of them all.

©2022 The Estate of Desmond Seward (P)2023 Tantor Europe Histoire Moyen Âge Scandinavie Angleterre Viking Scandinave Redevances
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First off, the author should be banned from writing the phrase "[the king, the jarl, etc.] and his herd" ever again; the words recur so often in this narrative that it becomes distracting. That said, the account of Olav is informative and entertaining and fast-moving and explores the rise and fall of a great Viking king in some detail. Quite enjoyable.

Entertaining and informative, fast-moving

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