The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Title | The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow PDF eBook |
Author | Allen French |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
THE STORY OF ROLF AND THE VIKINGS BOW - A YA Viking Adventure
Title | THE STORY OF ROLF AND THE VIKINGS BOW - A YA Viking Adventure PDF eBook |
Author | Allen French |
Publisher | Abela Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2018-11-21 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 882955054X |
This story about Rolf, a youth and son of Hiarandi the Unlucky, who lives in early Christian Iceland during the days when the Icelandic society was transforming from the old Norse religion to Christianity. At the urging of his wife, Hiarandi does an unprecedented thing and lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, challenging the accepted custom which places lucrative salvage at higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and eventually, the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. Rolf loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to a scheming neighbour. Then he is outlawed from Iceland at the Althing (Council) and travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck, enslavement, Viking berserkers, and many other dangers and adventures. All the while, Rolf searches for a way to prove his father was killed unjustly and win back his own property and freedom. Even more difficult, Rolf must end the cycle of enmity, vengeance, and pride that hangs like a curse over his family Rolf's response to the injustice done to him creates a suspenseful, thought-provoking and page-turning tale which is difficult to put down. ============ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Rolf and the Viking’s Bow, Norse, Archery, , abroad, Althing, Asdis, ashore, atonement, baresarks, beacon, beserkers, blood, bow, Broadfirth, carline, chapmen, cliffs, cloak, Cragness, crags, Earl, Einar, evil, father, Fellstead, Flosi, Frodi, Gisli, gold, Grani, Grettir, Hallmund, Hallvard, Hawksness, heart, Helga, Hiarandi, home, Iceland, judges, Kari, Kiartan, kinsman, Kolbein, money, mound, neighbours, Ondott, Orkney, Outlaw, outlawry, Priest, Quarter, Rolf, Scots, sea, shepherd, shield, ship, shipmaster, shoot, smithy, smote, Snorri, son, storehouse, storm, strength, Sweyn, sword, Thorfinn, thrall, Thurid, Tongue, travel, Vemund, vengeance, viking, warship, weapons, whittle, winter, witnesses, wounds
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow Comprehension Guide
Title | The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow Comprehension Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Fischer |
Publisher | Veritas Press |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781930710795 |
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow
Title | The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow PDF eBook |
Author | Allen French |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1625585306 |
Rolf is the son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife, does an unforgivable thing: he lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, challenging the accepted custom that place lucrative salvage at a higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. This tale exemplifies the effect of Christ's teachings upon the Icelandic people during their heroic age. The book is set in Iceland in the days when Christianity has come to the island though the old customs still linger.
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Title | The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow PDF eBook |
Author | Allen French |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Iceland |
ISBN |
Rolf, a young bowman in eleventh-century Iceland, faces many dangers as he tries to bring to justice the men responsible for his father's death.
The Lost Baron
Title | The Lost Baron PDF eBook |
Author | Allen French |
Publisher | Bethlehem Books |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781883937539 |
Martin's first day as a page is also his last when the Baron mysteriously disappears and his visiting relative and heir takes charge of the castle.
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Title | The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow PDF eBook |
Author | Allen French |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2013-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781482036367 |
Rolf is the only son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Most of his father's ill luck springs from the fact that he is compassionate and that his neighbor, Einar, covets his land and his spacious hall. The wicked Einar manages to get Hiarandi ensnared in legal difficulties and he is sentenced to spend a year within a bow-shot of his own hall. Not content, Einar sends his henchmen to trick Hiarandi into venturing beyond this perimeter where he will be fair game for slaughter. Hiarandi is killed, but in the process, young Rolf also kills one of Einar's henchmen. Now Rolf is made an outlaw and is forced to flee from Iceland until his sentence is complete. But Rolf will not be content until he can prove that his father was killed within a bowshot of his home--and thus make Einar subject to the law.