Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking
10 best books like Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking (Michael Burr): The Rise of Robin Hood, The Hermetica of Elysium, The Norseman, Shieldwall, Crowbone, Gildenford, 1066: What Fates Impose, The Splintered Kingdom, Catching the Eagle, Of Summer and Winter
| Author | Angus Donald |
| ISBN | 1405528885 |
This is the first in a trilogy of short stories from Angus Donald that tell tales of the early life of the heroes of his Outlaw series.
This first one, as the title might rather suggest, takes us back to the beginning and the first foray of Robin in his outlaw days, when he was green in more ways than...
| Author | Annmarie Banks |
| ISBN | 1908483067 |
1494 Barcelona. Thousands of books and manuscripts are lost to the flames as the Black Friars attempt to purge Europe of the ancient secrets of the gods and the bold new ideas that are ushering in the Renaissance. Words are Nadira’s life. She is pursued as passionately for her rare skill as a reader of...
| Author | Jason Born |
| ISBN | 1468187171 |
The Norseman is the first volume of the vividly-detailed historical chronicles of Halldorr, an orphan whose entire desire was to lay beside both a warm hearth and a plump wife, but fate had another thread to spin. Instead, he found himself exiled, resigned to a life of raiding, killing for plunder and...
| Author | Justin Hill |
| ISBN | 0349123373 |
The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin,...
| Author | Robert Low |
| ISBN | 9780007298 |
The long awaited return to Robert Low's Oathsworn series Island of Mann, 979AD. A man lies dying with a message he cannot take to his grave, a sworn secret that must be passed on only to Olaf Tryggvasson, kin of Harald Fairhair of the Yngling line and true prince of Norway, also known as Crowbone. When the...
In 1036 the exiled Alfred Atheling, son of the late King Ethelred and his wife, Emma of Normandy, is invited to return to England to visit his mother. While lodging with Godwin, Earl of Wessex, in the town of Gildenford (now known as Guildford), Alfred and his men are betrayed and captured on the orders...
| Author | G.K. Holloway |
| ISBN | 1783062207 |
England is in crisis. King Edward has no heir and promises never to produce one. There are no obvious successors available to replace him, but quite a few claimants are eager to take the crown. While power struggles break out between the various factions at court, enemies abroad plot to make England their...
| Author | James Aitcheson |
| ISBN | 1402286198 |
Summer, 1070. Renowned for his valor in the battle for York, Tancred a Dinant is now a lord in his own right, with knights of his own to command and a manor to call home in the turbulent Welsh borderlands. But his hard-fought gains are soon threatened, as a coalition of enemies both old and new prepares to...
Easter Monday, 1809: Kirkley Hall manor house is mysteriously burgled. When suspicion falls on Jamie Charlton, he and his family face a desperate battle to save him from the gallows.
When £1,157 rent money is stolen from Kirkley Hall, it is the biggest robbery Northumberland has ever known....
| Author | Angela L. Costello |
| ISBN | 1480083968 |
A dynastic shift in the Imperial line of Rome shakes up the life of Anna, a lady of the high court and princess by marriage. On her return to the capital a year after the murder of her husband, court intrigue takes little time to set in, and Anna finds herself a prisoner within the palace walls. There she meets...
| Author | Priscilla Royal |
| ISBN | 1590589475 |
Baron Herbert’s return from crusade should have been a joyous occasion. Instead, he grows increasingly morose, withdraws from his family, and refuses to share his wife’s bed. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, some ask whether Herbert harbors a dark sin for which God has cursed him. The...
| Author | Tom Harper |
| ISBN | 0099453487 |
Byzantium, 1096. When a mysterious assassin looses his arrow at the Emperor, he has more than a man in his sights; the keystone of a crumbling empire, the Emperor is the solitary figure holding its enemies in check. If he falls, then the mightiest power in Christendom will be torn apart. Aware of the stakes,...
The Holy Land, 1291. A war has been raging across these lands for decades. The forces of the Crusaders have been pushed back again and again by the Muslims and now just one city remains in Crusader control. That one city stands between the past and the future. One city which must be defended at all costs....
Book One of "The Jacobites." Centuries of endless feuds and cold revenge. Decades lost in senseless betrayal and hot-blooded murder. Passing years marked by awakening love and mindless passion. The internal stresses of day to day life in the Western Isles are marked by external interruptions from...
July 1805: Napoleon's army masses across the Channel - Britain is within hours of invasion and defeat. Only one thing stands in the way - an obscure government bureau of murky origins and shadowy purpose: The Comptrollerate General for Scrutiny and Survey. And, rescued from a shipwreck, his past erased,...
| Author | Judith Tarr |
| ISBN | 0451460022 |
For 500 years the Saxons ruled England, crushing the ancient powers. But a wave of change approaches. Across the Channel in Normandy, William is born-the bastard son of a duke and a magical woman of Druid descent. As he grows to manhood, William's battle skills earn him respect, but his temper and disregard...
Introduction to Old English
| Author | Peter S. Baker |
| ISBN | 0631234543 |
This innovative introduction to the Old English language focuses on what students need to know in order to engage with Old English literary and historical texts.
A pioneering introduction to Old English designed for a new generation of students. Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional...
| Author | Michael Cadnum |
| ISBN | 0142300349 |
A National Book Award nominee!
Returning to the same era of his "In a Dark Wood", Cadnum's majestic novel--part mystery, part history--chronicles the pageantry and brutality of the Crusades under King Richard.
Edmund, a young apprentice, is awaiting punishment as a counterfeiter...
| Author | The Medieval Murderers |
| ISBN | 1847376770 |
Follows the usual plan for this series. Short stores written by various authors with a common theme. I didn't think this was quite up to the same quality as others in the series but I enjoyed it nonetheless. There was a slight change with this one as the last story was dystopian-set
A monk writes down...
| Author | J.R. Tomlin |
| ISBN | 1489523758 |
James, Lord of Douglas, known to his foes as the Black Douglas, leads a flank of the Scottish army in crushing a vast invading English force at the waters of the Bannockburn. Fresh from battle, James revels in honors heaped on him by the Scots and in the hatred of the enemy. When King Robert the Bruce orders...
Outremer, the distant lands. The troubadours sing of its mystical loveliness and tell tales of love and honour woven around the constant battles between Christendom and Islam.
For Honfroy, a young squire in the service of the Knights Templar, the reality is less poetic and far grimmer.
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England 1485: They were called the Sons of York. They were secretly created during the final hours of the reign of Richard III. Their sole purpose to hunt down and eliminate the descendents of his murderer.
By any means necessary.
Over five hundred years later the long reign of King...
| Author | Giles Kristian |
| ISBN | 0593066162 |
Rebel Cast out from his home, rejected by his family, Tom Rivers returns to his regiment. But his commander believes the young hothead's recklessness and contempt for authority has no place in his troop. But to a spymaster like Captain Crafte, Tom's dark and fearless nature is in itself a weapon to be...
