Odinn's Child: The Heroes of the North Live On (Viking Trilogy) (No. 1)
by Tim Severin
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Author: Tim SeverinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 0330426737
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Macmillan UK
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Book Review: A must read for Heathens
Summary: 4 Stars
A strong first fiction effort from an established history writer.
Tim Severin's historical accuracy is excellent in this novel which follows the exploits of the historical Thorgils, an illegitimate son of Erik the Red. His travels take him from Greenland and Vinland to Iceland and eventually Ireland, tracing his childhood and later teen years through the world depicted in the Icelandic Sagas.
Thorgils, devoted to Odinn, holds to his Heathen faith though a period which finds the world around him rapidly becoming Christianized. As a modern Heathen there is much in this tale which resonates deeply with me and leaves me wondering if the author himself might not be Heathen.
Strongly plotted and vividly described, I found Severin's style in this volume to be more suited to jouranlism than fiction, which is why I gave it four starts rather than five. Happily the second volume of this planned trilogy does not warrant the same criticism. Though many of the secondary characters are somewhat flat, Thorgils himself is complex and well developed.
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