I was recently reviewing Neil Gaiman's latest book, Nordic myths. The history seen from the perspective of these myth-filled towns has an aftertaste of Basic History. In the same way that the Greek and Roman classics constituted the sustenance of the modern world, the Nordic peoples of Europe did the same but with a greater point of esotericism, the exotic and the mythological. Although it was not a people so given to writing as a means of transmitting their culture, their oral testimonies maintained in traditions and their material legacy narrates what our world was like when darkness still prevailed ...
Under these brief premises, approaching a fictional narrative proposal is not so far from a historical intention of these peoples in other remote times.
The eighth century in which the plot starts is something of which there are more vestiges than true realities, so the adventure towards knowledge is assured in a good novel that has managed to bring to this day what can be intuited from that fascinating past .
This story begins in the Nordic lands of Scandinavia in the early XNUMXth century AD Something like another recent novel The wolf's smileby Tim Leach.
Hakan is the protagonist in this case, a protagonist who shares that idea of the individual of this civilization dedicated to the cause of his life, through which we approach the values that should prevail in those peoples governed by the cold and the search of spaces where we can face the survival of the species.
Only the harshest live in harsh lands. Hakan wants to be a soldier. And although life holds a tragic event for him, the losses serve to increase his desire to find his vital foundation. Only that fate sometimes holds unpleasant surprises, where what you thought of as a loyal cause can end up being the greatest injustice hovering over Hakan like a cloud that only anticipates revenge.
Serve a king as a mercenary from far away lands or serve his cause that begs for revenge ...
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