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The Green Man
by Henry Treece
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In sixth-century Jutland, Prince Amleth confronts the murder of his father and the seizure of power by men who expect him either to submit or die. Treece reworks the Scandinavian story behind Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a world of feasting halls, vendetta, unstable kingship and calculated performance, where appearing foolish may be the only protection available to an endangered heir.
The novel brings Amleth into contact with sharply revisionist versions of Beowulf and Arthur. Neither is an uncomplicated hero: each is a political actor shaped by violence, pride and failure. Dark comedy and mythic allusion turn the revenge plot into a study of masculinity and heroic reputation at the point where legend, oral tradition and early-medieval history overlap.
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