Saga Heroes
2009
 |
| No items matching your keywords were found. |
Saga Heroes
The Saga of Olaf the Glorious - only a Viking could have led a life like this! - BBC 4's The Viking Sagas
It was back in the tenth century, when the mighty fair-haired warriors of Norway and Sweden and Denmark, whom the people of Southern Europe called the Northmen, were becoming known and dreaded throughout the world. Iceland and Greenland had been colonized by their dauntless enterprise. Greece and Africa had not proved distant enough to escape their ravages. The descendants of the Viking Rollo ruled in France as Dukes of Normandy; and Saxon England, misguided by Ethelred the Unready and harassed by Danish pirates, was slipping swiftly and surely under Northern rule. It was the time when the priests of France added to their litany this petition: "From the fury of the Northmen, deliver us, good Lord."
The old, old Norwegian city of Trondhjem, which lies on Trondhjem Fiord, girt by the river Nid, was then King Olaf Trygvasson's new city of Nidaros, and though hardly more than a trading station, a hamlet without streets, it was humming with prosperity and jubilant life. The shore was fringed with ships whose gilded dragon-heads and purple-and-yellow hulls and azure-and-scarlet sails were reflected in the waves until it seemed as if rainbows had been melted in them. Hillside and river-bank bloomed with the gay tents of chieftains who had come from all over the North to visit the powerful Norwegian king. But it hadnt started this.
The hero in this volume is not an imaginary one; he was a real flesh and blood man who reigned as King of Norway just over a thousand years ago. The main facts of his adventurous career -- his boyhood of slavery in Estonia, his life at the court of King Valdemar, his wanderings as a Viking, the many battles he fought, his conversion to Christianity in England, and his ultimate return to his native land -- are set forth in the various Icelandic sagas dealing with the period in which he lived. The author made free use of these old time records, and added only such probable incidents as were necessary to give a continuous thread of interest to the narrative.
For the convenience of readers who may wish for greater exactness it may be as well to state here that Olaf Triggvison was born A.D. 963, that he started on his wanderings as a Viking in the year A.D. 981, that the sea fight between the Vikings of Jomsburg and the Norwegians took place in A.D. 986, and the battle of Maldon in the year A.D. 991.
Olaf reigned only five years as King of Norway, after being crowned in 995, and ending his reign with his death in the glorious defeat at Svold in the year A.D. 1000.
33% of the publisher's profit from the sale of this book will be donated to UNICEF
For more information, a table of contents, a sample of the text or to order,go to http://www.fairytales-n-folklore.com/olaf.html or to http://www.abelapublishing.com/olaf.html
To see all the Norse sagas and books which relate to the BBC4 series "The Viking Sagas" go to http://www.abelapublishing.com/VikingandIcelandicTales.html
About the Author
Educated at Westville Boys High, Durban, South Africa, between 1970 and 1976, he excelled at middle-distance athletics. A family tragedy prevented him touring the USA and gaining an athletics scholarship.
Following high school he completed two years national service in the South African Air Force and therafter backpacked around Europe for two years.
He has a diploma in Business Computing and an MBA from Bath University and has worked in various industries in South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Since 1999 he has been running his own management consultancy in the UK specialising in running Corporate Transformation and Turnaround programmes.
Following his MBA he wrote an historical novel "Legend of the Last Vikings" which was the catalyst for leading him into publishing. He established Abela Publishing in 2008/9 as a social enterprise. He has been publishing new and old children's stories, fairytales, folklore, myths and legends from which he donates 33% of Abela Publishing's profit to charities around the world.
To see which charities are currently supported, go to http://www.abelapublishing.com/charity.html
To view the entire Fairytales, Folklore, Myths and Legends catalogue, go to
http://www.abelapublishing.com/catalogue.html
My lite-on sohw 1633S dvdrw will not read Vanguard Saga of Heroes disk how do fix this problem?
I am trying to download Vanguard: Saga of Heroes from the DVD disk i bought today and it won't read the disk....anyone know how to fix this or where the problem is?
Maybe the disk is not region 1 try playing it in your dvd player if it plays then just update your dvd drives firmware or download regionfreedvd to play it.
Vanguard Saga of Heroes - Official Trailer [HD]
