The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age.

BENGTSSON, Frans G.

Item Number: 143159

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.

First American edition of Bengtsson’s epic novelization of the Viking Age. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Translated from the Swedish by Michael Meyer. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Rose.

In this remarkable novel of more that five hundred action-packed pages, the Vikings of the tenth century live their precarious lives, lives dedicated to slaughter, piracy, and pillage with almost idyllic interludes of domestic tranquility and peace. Great scholar Frans G. Bengtsson recreates the coming of Christianity to the heathen north in fascinating and authentic detail, capturing to an astonishing degree the flavor and drama of the great Viking sagas.