| Erling the Bold by R. M. Ballantyne, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Mystery & Detective Contributor(s): Ballantyne, R. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606642650 ISBN-13: 9781606642658 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: A CLASH OF AXES, A SLASH OF SWORDS It was a memorable duel. For hours, King Haldor of Horlingdal and King Ulf of Romsdal battled. But the axe of Haldor the Fierce split Ulf's shield, and slammed into his head, putting him into his bed for a full week. Thus did King Haldor win the contest prize of this Viking contest. Herfrida the Soft Eyed became his bride. Herfrida bore King Haldor a son named Erling. Ulf sired a daughter named Hilda. The Viking kings became friends and their progeny grew. Erling became a handsome young man and Hilda a beautiful young woman. But Erling the Bold's Viking destiny was not peace. For Erling the Bold and Hilda the Sunbeam met a hermit with a strange new faith. His name was Christian. He changed their fate forever. Here is a thrilling tale of Vikings in their travels from Norway to Ireland and beyond to finally colonize Iceland by a Victorian master of adventure novels. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" (0.74 lbs) 224 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Ballantyne, R. M.: - "Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist and exhibited some of his water-colors at the Royal Scottish Academy. Ballantyne went to Canada aged 16 and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company. He traded with the local Native Americans for furs, which required him to travel by canoe and sleigh to the areas occupied by the modern-day provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, experiences that formed the basis of his novel Snowflakes and Sunbeams (1856). His longing for family and home during that period impressed him to start writing letters to his mother. Ballantyne recalled in his autobiographical Personal Reminiscences in Book Making (1893) that "To this long-letter writing I attribute whatever small amount of facility in composition I may have acquired." In 1856 Ballantyne gave up job working for a publishing firm to focus on his literary career and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. The Coral Island (1857) and more than 100 other books followed in regular succession, his rule being in every case to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described." |