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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. "När hövdingen ger order om att sätta ut deras nyfödda barn i skogen flyr trälparet Holme och Ausi från boplatsen vid Mälaren. Sin fristad finner de i Birka, en stad som präglas av brytningstiden mellan hednisk tro och kristendom.Trägudars land (1940) är den första delen i Jan Fridegårds trilogi om vikingatidens Sverige. Skildringen av upprorsmakaren Holmes kamp mot övermakten är en hjältesaga med politiska undertoner som hör till klassikerna inom svensk 1900-talsprosa.”Historien om trälen Holmes och trälinnan Ausis äktenskap är en ovanligt helgjuten berättelse. Mångt och mycket är skildrat med en intuitiv upplevelse som väcker häpnad och beundran. Somt för tanken till Lawrence, som med samma passion trängde sig fram till livsmystärens svartröda urkällor.”Elmer Diktonius" sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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The romantic and powerful Viking warrior is a favorite subject of novelists, moviemakers, and historians. But he is not the hero of Land of Wooden Gods. His servant is. Jan Fridegård (1897-1968) recreates the Viking period from a new perspective, bringing to life not only a warfare culture but the institutions that supported it, especially slavery and a religion of fear. Originally published in Sweden in 1940, Land of Wooden Gods is the first volume of a trilogy of novels that Scandinavians consider among the greatest and most accurate every written about the Vikings. For capturing its directness and emotional force in English, Robert E. Bjork won the 1987 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. A thrall named Holme is the protagonist of Land of Wooden Gods, which centers on the slave population of Sweden in the ninth century, when the country was on the verge of Christianization. The novel begins with the abandonment of a slave baby, condemned to the wolf-infested woods by a Viking chieftain upset by thrall unrest. The ensuing action shows Holme, the father, acting as not slave has ever before. Fridegård, a master at creating atmosphere, sets the scene for his monumental work: a Viking village, with its log halls, stable, and sty; feuding families and human sacrifice; broadsailed dragon ships; and a port of pirates. The remaining novels in the trilogy—People of the Dawn (1944) and Sacrificial Smoke (1949)—were published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1990. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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