Viking’s Dawn

Name: Viking’s Dawn
Rating: 4.14 (263 reviews)

by Henry Treece Book 1 in the Viking Saga series.

First published 1955

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In the late eighth century, the young Harald Sigurdson joins Thorkell Fairhair aboard the longship Nameless. The voyage towards Scotland and the Hebrides promises wealth and adulthood, but Harald quickly learns that seafaring exposes every weakness. Storms, hunger, drowning and the violence of coastal raiding replace the heroic stories he has heard at home.

The first Viking Saga novel follows Harald through his first killing and his first sustained experience of command. Loyalty to the crew is necessary for survival, yet the people they attack reveal the human cost of the expedition. Treece presents the Viking world as mobile, disciplined and adventurous without disguising the brutality on which its wealth depends.