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| Author | : Toby Venables |
| Publisher | : Abaddon Books |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2011-04-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849972656 |
Northern Europe, 976 AD. Bjólf and the viking crew of the ship Hrafn flee up an unknown river after a bitter battle, only to find themselves in a bleak land of pestilence. The dead don’t lie down, but become draugr – the undead – returning to feed on the flesh of their kin. Terrible stories are told of a dark castle in a hidden fjord, and of black ships that come raiding with invincible draugr berserkers. And no sooner has Bjólf resolved to leave, than the black ships appear... Now stranded, his men cursed by the contagion of walking death, Bjólf has one choice: fight his way through a forest teeming with zombies, invade the castle and find the secret of the horrific condition – or submit to an eternity of shambling, soulless undeath!
| Author | : Michael Crichton |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2012-05-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307816435 |
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.
| Author | : Tom Shippey |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2018-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780239505 |
Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it is this same worldview that has always powered the popular public image of the Vikings—with their berserkers, valkyries, and cults of Valhalla and Ragnarok—and has also been surprisingly corroborated by archaeological discoveries such as the Ridgeway massacre site in Dorset. Was it this mindset that powered the sudden eruption of the Vikings onto the European scene? Was it a belief in heroic death that made them so lastingly successful against so many bellicose opponents? Weighing the evidence of sagas and poems against the accounts of the Vikings’ victims, Tom Shippey considers these questions as he plumbs the complexities of Viking psychology. Along the way, he recounts many of the great bravura scenes of Old Norse literature, including the Fall of the House of the Skjoldungs, the clash between the two great longships Ironbeard and Long Serpent, and the death of Thormod the skald. One of the most exciting books on Vikings for a generation, Laughing Shall I Die presents Vikings for what they were: not peaceful explorers and traders, but warriors, marauders, and storytellers.
| Author | : Stefan Brink |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 742 |
| Release | : 2008-10-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113431826X |
Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field, and the most comprehensive book of its kind ever attempted.
| Author | : Matthew Sprange |
| Publisher | : Abaddon Books |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2006-08-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849970076 |
From the depths they rose... Orders to chase down the French frigate Elita off the Cape of Good Hope came as welcome news to Captain Havelock. Stranded with the rest of the fleet at Spithead while waiting for France to initiate hostilities was an unwelcome duty for any up and coming officer. Here was a chance for glory – and prize money! The duel would prove to be far from easy though. Very soon, Captain Havelock would come to realise that theirs were not the only two warships in the southern ocean, and an enemy long since thought to be vanquished would return from the dead to exact a terrible vengeance!
| Author | : Gerald Stern |
| Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
| Total Pages | : 121 |
| Release | : 2016-12-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1595347852 |
In Death Watch, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality. Characteristically audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic, Stern looks back at his life and forward in time to how his story will play out. Wrestling with his identity in Judaism, he explores how his name was uprooted from its origins, as so much of his life will be willfully disrupted from the expectations of his parents and the norms of a predictable path. Stern recounts his life, itself “a grand digression,” which takes him from Pittsburgh, to the Army, to Paris on the GI Bill, and back to the United States, where he immerses himself in the literary culture around him. Stern’s early and traumatic loss of his older sister provides the occasion to imagine what her life might have been, and he revels in his past love affairs, the many women beloved in his life. He recollects books that occupy his recent reading—the work of W.G. Sebald, Blaise Cendrars, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline—and how memory is always at the heart of literary accomplishment and what creates the staying power of great literature. Death Watch is as an account of a beloved poet's final journey; a vivid, passionate, and, at times, whimsical look at the gamble of living life to its fullest, choosing the life of a poet, philosopher, prophet, lover, radical, and perpetual troublemaker.
| Author | : Loretta Ross |
| Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2018-02-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0738753912 |
Next on Wren and Death's Appraisal List: Item #1: An Old Family Feud. Item #2: A Missing Woman. Item #3: A Body in the Rosebushes of their Dream House Auctioneer Wren Morgan and her private eye fiancé Death (pronounced "Deeth") Bogart are ready to meet each other's parents and settle down together. But their sleuthing days are far from over. While Death and Wren are helping prepare auction items at an old supper club, a Viking reenactor nearly dies at the historical settlement next door. The cause? Seeing the ghost of his daughter, who went missing twenty years ago. As Wren looks into what happened to the Viking's daughter, Death is hired to investigate the theft of historical items that have high sentimental value. When their respective investigations turn out to be connected, the couple gets caught in a deadly conflict. Praise for the Auction Block Mysteries: Death & the Gravedigger's Angel "Ross's sleuthing pair again faces a present-day murder steeped in historical detail."—Kirkus Reviews Death &the Brewmaster's Widow "There are fewer auctions in this second series entry, but readers won't mind as the twisty, Hitchcock-style plot unfolds."—Booklist "Lively."—Publishers Weekly "The second case for Death and Wren uses an intriguing premise to flesh out the charming detective duo."—Kirkus Reviews Death & the Redheaded Woman "[A] winning debut."—Publishers Weekly "The witty sarcastic banter between the lead characters was charming and endearing."—RT Book Reviews "Ross's debut features a likeable pair of sleuths, some local Missouri history, and a nice little mystery."—Kirkus Reviews
| Author | : Paul Hardwick |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2019-11-12 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476673748 |
This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy. From a range of critical viewpoints, these all fresh essays explore the ways in which past and present representations of the Vikings converge in the show's richly textured dramatization of the rise and fall of Ragnar Loobrok--and the exploits of his heirs--creating what many viewers label a "true" representation of the age. From the show's sources in both saga literature and Victorian revival, to its engagement with contemporary concerns regarding gender, race and identity, via setting, sex, society and more, this first book-length study of the History Channel series appeals to fans of the show, Viking enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in medievalist representation in the 21st century.
| Author | : Matt Haig |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2007-02-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101201991 |
A ghost story with a twist, from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library. "Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories." —Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?
| Author | : Peter C. Jupp |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780719058110 |
This work provides a social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book charts the story of the way in which our forebears coped with aspects of their daily lives.
