Viking: Odinn's Child

Viking: Odinn's Child by Tim Severin is the first volume of a trilogy following the life of Thorgils Leifsson. Born in 999 on the threshold of the millenium year that many thought would bring the end of the world and the second coming of Christ he spends his childhood and youth in Iceland and Greenland his fate always in the hands of others. He reaches Vinland (Nova Scotia) in the train of his malevolent step sister and from there back to Iceland and on to Orkney were he is swept up into the service of the flamboyant Norse King of Dublin. Captured and enslaved by an Irish Chieftain he is presented to a monastery where he learns to read and write. Then he ...... well he goes from adventure to adventure. Never a dull moment in the company of Thorgils Leifsson and when this volume ends he is still only nineteen. Will he survive to old age? Will he survive to reach twenty? There are still two volumes to come so the prospects are good.