The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age. Michael Meyer

      RUDYARD KIPLING

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Praise

       Maps

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

PROLOGUE: How the shaven men fared in Skania in King Harald Bluetooth’s time

PART ONE: THE LONG VOYAGE

I: Concerning Thane Toste and his household

II: Concerning Krok’s expedition: and how Orm set forth on his first voyage

III: How they sailed southwards, and how they found themselves a good guide

IV: How Krok’s men came to Ramiro’s kingdom, and how they paid a rewarding visit

V: How Krok’s luck changed twice, and how Orm became left-handed

VI: Concerning the Jew Solomon and the Lady Subaida, and how Orm got his sword Blue-Tongue

VII: How Orm served Almansur, and how he sailed with St James’s bell

VIII: Concerning Orm’s sojourn among the monks of St Finnian, and how a great miracle occurred at Jellinge

IX: How King Harald Bluetooth celebrated Yule

       X: How Orm lost his necklace

       XI: Concerning the wrath of Brother Willibald, and how Orm tried his hand at wooing

       XII: How Orm came home from his long voyage

       PART TWO: IN KING ETHELRED’S KINGDOM

       I: Concerning the battle that was fought at Maldon, and what came after it

       II: Concerning spiritual things

       III: Concerning marriage and baptism, and King Ethelred’s silver

       IV: How Brother Willibald taught King Sven a maxim from the scriptures

       PART THREE: IN THE BORDER COUNTRY

       I: How Orm built his house and church, and how they named his red-haired daughters

       II: How they planned a christening feast for King Harald’s grandson

       III: Concerning the strangers that came with salt, and how King Sven lost a head

       IV: How Orm preached to the salt-pedlar

       V: Concerning the great christening feast, and how the first Smalanders came to be baptized

       VI: Concerning four strange beggars, and how the Erin Masters came to Father Willibald’s assistance

       VII: Concerning the King of Sweden’s sword-bearer, and the magister from Aachen and his sins

       VIII: Concerning the sinful magister’s second sin, and the penance to which he was condemned for it

       IX: How the magister searched for heifers and sat in a cherry-tree

       X: Concerning the women’s doings at the Kraka Stone, and how Blue-Tongue’s edge became dented

       XI: Concerning Toke Grey-Gullsson, and a misfortune that befell him; and of a foul gift Orm received from the Finnvedings

       XII: Concerning the Thing at the Kraka Stone

       PART FOUR: THE BULGAR GOLD

       I: Concerning the end of the world, and how Orm’s children grew up

       II: Concerning the man from the East

       III: Concerning the story of the Bulgar gold

       IV: How they planned to get the gold

       V: How they sailed to the Gotland Vi

       VI: How they rowed to the Dnieper

       VII: Concerning what happened at the weirs

       VIII: How Orm met an old friend

       IX: Concerning their journey home, and how Olof Summer-Bird vowed to become a Christian

       X: How they settled accounts with the crazy magister

       XI: Concerning the great hounds’ chase