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24 Hours With the Vikings

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A Viking family in Norway loads up their ship and enjoys a farewell feast before setting sail to set up home overseas. What dangers might they face at sea? Will the Norse gods protect them on their journey? Meet a brother and sister as they say goodbye to their old home and prepare for adventure. Before they go, there’s time for one last lesson in sword fighting, and a final visit to their ancestors at the burial ground. Their grandmother tells them tales of her own seafaring adventures and shows them how to read Norse writing – runes. This comic is filled with details about every aspect of Viking life, interwoven with stories of trolls and vengeful ghosts and legends of gods and monsters.

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A Viking family embarks on a perilous voyage to set up home in a new land, in this comic strip packed with information and adventure.

Meet a brother and sister as they say goodbye to their old home and prepare for adventure. Before they go, there’s time for one last lesson in sword fighting, and a final visit to their ancestors at the burial ground. Their grandmother tells them tales of her own seafaring adventures and shows them how to read Norse writing – runes.

This comic is filled with details about every aspect of Viking life, interwoven with stories of trolls and vengeful ghosts and legends of gods and monsters.

– Written by Lan Cook, who studied Norse history at Cambridge University, with expert advice from Professor E.A. Rowe
Includes Quicklinks to find out more about the Vikings
Vibrant, comic-strip illustrations

Additional information

Weight 0.46 kg
Dimensions 25.7 × 19.2 × 1.1 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

64

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

948.022 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J