The Road to Miklagard [Import] [Hardcover]

Henry Treece (Author), Christine Price (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books; Uniform Ed edition (March 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0370009576
• ISBN-13: 978-0370009575
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,183,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Probably for Viking fans only, August 23, 2001

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sideshowbob (Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Road to Miklagard (Hardcover)

This is the second part of Treece's trilogy about the Norwegian Viking, Harald Sigurdson. It's set in about the year 800 and tells a fairly typical adventure for a Norwegian Viking of the period, sailing to Ireland in search of treasure. Later, however, the tale gets a bit more fantastic, when Harald is shipwrecked and ends up in Miklagard (Constantinople), the capital of the Byzantine Empire. He serves there are a guardsman. He could be seen as a forerunner of the famed Byzantine Guard.

Treece's language is very simple in these books; its probably intended more for children or adolescents then for adults. However, it provides a good character study for the grim, brave Vikings,and it provides a fair smattering of Viking myths, stories, and jokes. All in all I found this enjoyable (though not as good as Viking's Dawn), but I'm a Viking fanatic. Not everyone's idea of a good read.