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Röde Orm

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Frans G. Bengtssons berättelse om Orm Tostessons hisnande resa från enkel bondpojke till respekterad vikingakrigare är en klassiker som saknar motstycke inom svensk litteratur. Allt börjar när Orm och hans vän Toke av en slump hamnar ombord på ett vikingaskepp. Vad som följer är en färd i väster- och österled där de ställs inför farliga sjöslag, politiska intriger och möten med nya kulturer. Men under sina äventyr tvingas Orm inte bara strida i fysiska strider – han ställs också inför djupare frågor om kärlek och vad det egentligen innebär att vara hjälte.

Med humor, finess och vind i seglen skildrar Bengtsson en tid i förändring, där gamla gudar förlorar sin makt och kristendomens inflytande tar fast form. "Röde Orm" är en äventyrsberättelse om ära, heder och att hitta sin plats i världen – allt under en av de mest turbulenta epokerna i vår historia.

551 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2025

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Frans G. Bengtsson

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Frans G. Bengtsson (1894–1954) was born and raised in the southern Swedish province of Skåne, the son of an estate manager. His early writings, including a doctoral thesis on Geoffrey Chaucer and two volumes of poetry written in what were considered antiquated verse forms, revealed a career-long interest in historical literary modes and themes. Bengtsson was a prolific translator (of Paradise Lost, The Song of Roland, and Walden), essayist (he published five collections of his writings, mostly on literary and military topics), and biographer (his two-volume biography of Charles XII (Karl XII:s levnad) won the Swedish Academy’s annual prize in 1938). In 1941 he published Röde Orm: Sjöfarare i västerled (Red Orm at Home and on the Western Way), followed, in 1945, by Röde Orm: Hemma och i österled (Red Orm at Home and on the Eastern Way). The two books were published in a single volume in the United States and England in 1954 as The Long Ships. During the Second World War, Bengtsson was outspoken in his opposition to the Nazis, refusing to allow for a Norwegian translation of The Long Ships while the country was still under German occupation.

Bengtsson married Gerda Fineman in 1939. He studied at the University of Lund from 1912, receiving his licentiate in philosophy in 1930. He died in 1954 after a long illness.

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