Snake the Red

A fresh translation of one of the great adventure novels of the twentieth century — now rendered into English for the first time under its true name. Orm Tostesson — Snake the Red — is taken by Vikings as a boy and spends his youth as a slave in Moorish Spain before earning his freedom with a sword. His road home leads through the courts of King Harald Bluetooth and King Ethelred of England, across seas thick with longships, and into the strange new world that Christianity is making of the North. Frans G. Bengtsson's saga is drily funny, relentlessly readable, and completely its own thing. This translation aims to bring that voice into modern English without losing the deadpan grandeur of the original.