Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking

Chronicles of the Scraeling series

In the dead of night, a band of Vikings ravage a lonely convent on the Brittany coast—and their fearsome leader makes a decision that will eventually lead to his downfall. Ranulf de Lannion is fifteen years old. Crippled, deformed, and abandoned by his family to the charity of the convent, he is seized by the Vikings during a midnight raid. Contemptuously nicknamed "the Scraeling" by his captors, his future appears grim. Harald Sigurdsson, or "Hardrada" as he will come to be known, is the leader of the Viking band. A violent mercenary with designs on the throne of Norway, Hardrada abducts the Scraeling on a whim. Having sworn secret revenge upon Hardrada for the murders at the convent, Ranulf vows to end the day of the Viking forever. When the king of Norway launches an attack against the Anglo-Saxon throne of England in 1066, what role will the Scraeling play in bringing the age of the Viking to an end?

Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Book of Dreams Shares historical fiction, anglo saxon, fiction
  2. The Firedrake Shares historical fiction, medieval, fiction
  3. Sons of the Wolf Shares historical fiction, anglo saxon, medieval
  4. The Hermetica of Elysium Shares historical fiction, fiction

“People who read Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Catching the Eagle
  2. The Splintered Kingdom
  3. A Kingdom's Cost
  4. A Killing Season

“If you want more of the same (historical fiction), start with these.”

  1. The World Is Not Enough
  2. The Claiming
  3. The Constant Queen
  4. The Brewer's Tale

“If it was the medieval that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Knight With Armour
  2. John the Pupil: A Novel
  3. Hereward
  4. The Forever Queen

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Sing Me Home
  2. Dubh-linn
  3. Angelology
  4. Viking Fire