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by Tim Severin


  The events of Thorgils’s life imagined here derive mostly from the Icelandic sagas, one of the great collections of world literature and widely translated, notably in the Penguin Classics. Eochaid’s poem of the hermit’s hut is taken from Kenneth Hurlston, A Celtic Miscellany, first published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951; revised edition published by Penguin Books, 1971, reprinted 1973, 1975.

  VIKING

  Odinn’s Child

  TIM SEVERIN, explorer, film-maker and lecturer, has made many expeditions, from his crossing of the Atlantic in a medieval leather boat in The Brendan Voyage to, most recently, In Search of Moby Dick and Seeking Robinson Crusoe. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Book of the Sea Award, a Christopher Prize, and the literary medal of the Académie de la Marine. The Viking trilogy is his first work of fiction. His most recent novel is Buccaneer.

  Also by Tim Severin

  NON-FICTION

  The Brendan Voyage

  The Sindbad Voyage

  The Jason Voyage

  The Ulysses Voyage

  Crusader

  In Search of Genghis Khan

  The China Voyage

  The Spice Island Voyage

  In Search of Moby Dick

  Seeking Robinson Crusoe

  FICTION

  Viking: Sworn Brother

  Viking: King’s Man

  Corsair

  Buccaneer

  First published 2005 by Macmillan

  This edition published 2005 by Pan Books

  This electronic edition published 2011 by Pan Books

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  ISBN 978-0-330-52728-6 EPUB

  Copyright © Tim Severin 2005

  The right of Tim Severin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  The extract on page 308 from A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, First published 1951, is reproduced courtesy of Routledge.

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