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Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny - courageous and most importantly lucky - is merely a youngster when he's abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he's initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene animals, the Religious monks, and from which he then moves on to experience an a lot more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking beat of the military of the ruler of Great britain and comes back home an off-the-cuff Religious and a very wealthy man, though back on his local turf new tests and tribulations will test his cunning and willpower. Filled with pitched fights and blood vessels feuds, and informed throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson's book is a splendid adventure that has one of the most unexpectedly being successful heroes in modern fiction.
