![]() ![]() ![]() (I reread them again recently.) The message I took from them is that to isolate ourselves from the generosity or support of friends, colleagues or relatives is to impoverish our lives and to negate the great truth that to live a full life we need each other. I read these books before I was a teenager and they have stayed with me through the years. He is forced to chase a marauding enemy right across the Atlantic. In 'Viking's Sunset' we meet Harald when he is a mature leader of his community with a wife and growing children. Harald embarks on his last voyage in Vikings Sunset, this time not for. In 'The Road to Miklagard' Harald is a maturing warrior who heads for Ireland, but ends up in Byzantium. ![]() He began work as a teacher and then served as an. He went to Wednesbury High School and Birmingham University where he graduated in 1933. I have recently reread all three books of this trilogy by Henry Treece and I’ve noticed how Harald repeatedly needed help to survive to manhood. This is the story of how Harald and his friend Giant Grummoch set out in pursuit of marauding Vikings who have raided their homesteads, but instead of catching Haakon Redeye and his vicious companions, are swept by rough seas to far-off Greenland. Henry Treece (1911-1966) was born in the West Midlands. I identified with this lad and learned about his world and mine as he struggled to survive in a violent time. ‘Viking’s Dawn’ tells the story of Harald Sigurdson, a boy becoming a man during an adventure from Norway to Scotland and Ireland near the start of the Viking era. ![]()
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