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The Long Ships

a saga of the Viking Age

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An edition of The long ships (1943)

The Long Ships

a saga of the Viking Age

Fourth impression
  • 3.96 ·
  • 25 Ratings
  • 63 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 19 Have read

Med en stor portion humor och en berättarglädje som knappast har något motstycke i den svenska litteraturen är Röde Orm en av våra få verkligt levande klassiker som har fängslat generationer av läsare.

Orms äventyr börjar när han som yngling av en slump hamnar på ett vikingaskepp. Hans fortsatta öden berättas i dråpliga episoder om hans tid som galärslav och livvakt hos kalifens visir Almansur i Hispanien, om julgillet hos danernas kung Harald Blåtand, om engelske kung Ethelreds silver och utfärden österut efter bulgarguldet. Hans resor kantas av möten med judiska silversmeder, irländska munkar, isländska skalder, vilda patzinaker och med sig har han ständige följeslagaren Toke.

Röde Orm har kallats en sällsynt lyckad förening av fornnordisk och österländsk saga och utspelar sig kring år 1000, när vikingarna härjade längs Europas kuster och i de ryska flodsystemen, men också tog intryck av de folk och kulturer de mötte.

Boken utkom ursprungligen i två delar, Sjöfarare i västerled (1941) och Hemma och i österled (1945). Boken blev en försäljningssuccé i Sverige från första stund och första delen gavs redan under Andra världskriget ut i våra grannländer såväl som i Tyskland och USA, och har totalt översatts till ett tjugotal språk.

Denna utgåva inleds av ett nyskrivet förord av Erik Andersson, författare till bland annat romanen Den larmande hopens dal och uppmärksammad översättare till Tolkiens Ringarnas herre och Joyces Odysses.

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Contains:

  1. Sjöfarare i västerled
  2. Hemma och i österled
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Publisher
Fontana/Collins
Language
English
Pages
478

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2014, Harper
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2012, Norstedts
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2010, NYRB Classics
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Feb 24, 1993, Dtv
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1990, Manpocket
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April 26, 1984, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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1983, Norstedts
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1978, DTV
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1966-04, Alfred A. Knopf
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1963, Vingförlaget
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1960, Vingförlaget
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April 1, 1957, Signet
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1956, Collins / Fontana Books
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1955, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag
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1955-03, Collins
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1954, Alfred A. Knopf
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1954-01-01, P. A. Norstedt Soner Forlag
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1945, P.A. Norstedt Förlag
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1943, C. Scribner's sons
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Published in

London

Edition Notes

This translation originally published, London , Collins, 1954. - Translation of, 'Röde orm'. Stockholm , Norstedt, 1951.

Translation Of
Röde Orm
Translated From
Swedish

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
839.7/3/7

Contributors

Translator
Michael Meyer

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
477p. :
Number of pages
478

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22331609M
Internet Archive
longshipssagaofv0000beng
ISBN 10
000612609X
ISBN 13
9780006126096
OCLC/WorldCat
637957323
Library Thing
301685
Goodreads
59251076

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Along the coast the people lived together in villages, partly to be sure of food, that they might not depend entirely on the luck of their own catch, and partly for greater security; for ships rounding the Skanian peninsula often sent marauding parties ashore, both in the spring, to replenish cheaply their stock of fresh meat for the westward voyage, and in the winter, if they were returning empty-handed from unsuccessful wars.
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