Vikings Historical Fiction

Angleterre, Danemark, Xe siècle. "Que je sois maudite si je pars avec vous!" Lady Fearn tremble à l'idée de suivre Aric, le guerrier danois qui négocie sa capture avec son père adoptif. Non seulement ce Viking la traite comme une vulgaire marchandise, mais en plus il compte la retenir en otage au Danemark pendant toute une année! Et, à sa grande stupeur, son père, coupable d'avoir fauté avec la sœur du Viking, accepte la proposition pour maintenir la paix.

A horde of battle-hardened, ferocious Nordic warriors. A Pictish village at the mercy of its enemies. A harrowing bargain struck for nine fearful and reluctant brides. Delivered into Viking hands, claimed and conquered, each bride must accept that she belongs to her new master. But, as wedding nights bring surrender to duty, will fierce lovers also surrender their hearts? The Highland wilderness is savage, life is perilous, and the future uncertain, but each Viking has sworn protection, and there are no lengths to which a man will not go to safeguard the woman he loves.

A merced de una banda salvaje de vikingos, liderada por un guerrero formidable. Mantenida cautiva contra mi voluntad. Por primera vez, he encontrado una fuerza de voluntad tan grande como la mía, y he descubierto que no se puede negar el amor de un vikingo. Mientras mi despiadado capturador me pone a su merced, ¿podrá mi corazón resistirse, o caeré rendida ante él?

Shieldmaiden Brenna may be young, but she knows her mind. As the daughter of King Aric’s most trusted Huscarl, she is well-schooled in the art of battle and weaponry: skills vital for defending what is hers. Having fought to defend her homeland against would-be usurpers, she knows the cost of plunder and pillage.

Año 844, los vikingos atacan las costas de España. Después de haber sometido Irlanda y media Inglaterra, asolar Francia y sojuzgar nada menos que París y Nantes, los normandos desembarcan en la Torre de Hércules, en La Coruña. En esta nueva novela, José Javier Esparza aborda este episodio fascinante de nuestra historia con una prosa tan bella como épica y desde el mayor rigor histórico. Una auténtica recreación de la España altomedieval.

Îles Lofoten, Norvège, autour de l'an 1020. La vie de Thorfinn Bjarnison, le fils d'un respectable viking du Bjørnsand, bascule lorsqu'âgé de 7 ans, il doit déplorer la disparition tragique de son père. Une quinzaine d'années plus tard, le destin de Thorfinn bascule de nouveau lorsqu'il repêche des eaux le corps de la belle Aeryn. En s'éprenant éperdument de la jeune Princesse des Orcades, il se met à dos l'ennemi le plus implacable qui soit : le cruel Jarl Olaf de Bergen. Dès lors, celui-ci n'aura de cesse de le poursuivre.

Nur wer sie im Kampf besiegt, darf sie zur Frau nehmen! Doch jeder Bewerber scheitert an der schönen Schildmaid Sayrid Avildottar, die wie eine Göttin aus Walhalla das Schwert schwingt. Bis der breitschultrige Wikinger Hrolf Eymundsson sie herausfordert. Der wilde Seekönig, der die Flotte befehligt, besiegelt Sayrids Schicksal: In einer Sekunde der Unaufmerksamkeit unterliegt sie ihm! Sayrid muss ihm ihr Land überlassen. Aber mehr noch: Als seine Braut muss sie zur Mittsommernacht und bis in alle Ewigkeit sein Lager und seine Leidenschaft teilen.

North Yorkshire, 876. "Begrüße deinen neuen Lord!" Wie ein nordischer Gott betritt Wikinger Brand Bjornson das Anwesen Breckon, das bis zu diesem Moment Lady Ediths Zuhause war. Sein eisblauer Blick lässt sie furchtvoll erbeben, doch lieber würde sie sterben, als sich ihm widerspruchslos zu fügen! Stattdessen macht Edith ihm stolz ein Angebot: Sie ist zur Ehe mit ihm bereit, wenn Brand ihre Leute verschont.

Ivar Sorenson is not only his father's heir to their jarldom, he's his parents' last remaining son. There isn't much choice for the future jarl when his father demands an alliance with their feuding neighbor. That alliance can only come in the form of a marriage...to a woman Ivar doesn't want and doesn't like. Can Ivar convince his father that a marriage is needed to end the feud? Can he prove that the woman he loves is the woman his tribe needs to lead alongside him?

As the monks on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne saw the dragon ships approaching, they were wholly unprepared for the ferocity of what awaited them. “Death from the Mist: A Viking Prophecy” delves into the world of the Early Middle Ages as the Viking raiders attack the English coastal monasteries searching for wealth.

Harald Bluetooth, the first king of a united Denmark, was a Viking with a conscience. When an English king slaughtered his daughter in a genocidal attack, the Danes took over the English throne. A thousand years later, the English returned the favor by freeing Denmark from the tyranny of the German Nazis. This historical novel alternates chapters between the two eras, following the Danish archeologist Mette Anderson as she struggles to help her Jewish fiance in World War I.

This historical novel is based on the true story of the excavation of a Viking burial ship from a hill in Norway in 1904. The find dumbfounded archeologists because it was the most elaborate Viking grave ever discovered, yet the bones in the grave belonged to a woman. Historians had assumed that the Viking world - and certainly Viking ships - were ruled by men. Who was this woman?

Join Godfrid the Dane for murder and mayhem in medieval Dublin! Godfrid the Dane makes his first appearance in the Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mysteries in the first book, The Good Knight. He comes to Anglesey at the behest of the treacherous Prince Cadwaladr, but quickly realizes the deal he’s made is not quite what he thought, and Cadwaladr is not worthy of his allegiance. He takes it upon himself to learn the truth about what is going on in Wales and in the process encounters a young Welsh woman, Gwen, and her fiancé, Gareth, who comes to Ireland in search of her.

The Viking armies that plundered Ireland sit safely in their winter camps. Already controlling Dublin, the Northmen are planning to expand their reach and increase their riches. Ulv is alone in the wilderness, outlawed by his own, and condemned to a life behind enemy lines. Cold and afraid, he must fight for shelter, warmth and food. Only by handing Marcus over to the Jarl can he regain his freedom and honor. But first, he has to still his thirst for revenge. Follow Ulv, Marcus, Julia and the whole band of Viking misfits as they change the course of history.

Rescued as an infant from the wreckage of his boat, Caelin ap Cadwyr has come to be raised as a Norseman, far from his homeland, his family, and his destiny. Given a new name - Rathulf Thorvaldarsson - the orphaned Briton is unaware that his chosen path as a Viking warrior is soon to be thrown wildly off course.

John Broughton's Expulsion is a historically accurate, riveting adventure set in the medieval times, where riches and power are in the reach of the resourceful, and death is always just one step away.

They sent 300 warriors to kill one man. It wasn’t enough. Mercia lies broken but not beaten, her alliance with Wessex in tatters. Coelwulf, a fierce and bloody warrior, hears whispers that Mercia has been betrayed from his home in the west. He fears no man, especially not the Vikings sent to hunt him down.

They dressed as beasts, draping fur over their chainmail clad bodies, while wearing iron helmets with animal heads attached over the top. They used huge broad swords or large heavy clubs to subdue their victims, often slaughtering whole villages for a few gold coins. Their arsenal of weapons included swords, spears, axes, clubs, bows and arrows, and fire.They were the scourge of the coastal inhabitants of Europe. They were Norsemen, they were the Vikings.

Lassa Erickson likes normal teenage things, like reading ancient texts on chemical analysis and studying books on advanced alchemy. He's never read anything frivolous like The Joy of Axe Wielding or Uthbert's Guide to Decapitation. So, when he's conscripted into the 11th-century Viking army, and finds himself surrounded by an ocean of the fiercest, toughest, ugliest warriors the world has ever seen, he accepts his hapless brother Sven's brilliant idea of hiding at the back of his first battle, while everyone else does all the fighting.

When Ragnar Magnusson has to do battle with the high seas and an ancient mariner and navigator of the ship, part of his bravado is for Helga, also on board The Battlestormer. A young man on board with his three boyhood friends, Ragnar is singled out by the ship's navigator to become his apprentice in the art and science of navigating the oceans. Captain Leif Knutson is in search of the fabled Vinland the Good, exploring for King Sigurd, and he hopes to open up timber and ore trade in the newly found lands far to the west of Greenland.