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This is a novel that perfectly catches the mood of a harsh but heroic people. Set at the end of the Viking period, it tells of a young boy, Hakon, from the island of Rogen who, after his chieftain father is murdered, undertakes to reclaim his birthright from his treacherous uncle.Tags
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My 10 year old gave it 4 stars because he doesn't like it when books end in cliffhangers (the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!), but he really liked the book otherwise.
Brief tale of treachery and battle in a sparsely populated far northern part of Norway in the dark ages. I could not even tell what century it was.
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CCE 1000 Good Books List
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23+ Works 1,908 Members
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1963
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Kids, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .H286 .H — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Members
- 58
- Popularity
- 530,031
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.58)
- Languages
- Danish, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
