Danelaw: The Rise of Sweyn Forkbeard

by Dan Kennedy

On November 18th 1002 A.D. the English, King �thelred the Unready orders the massacre of all free Danes living in England. His actions set in motion the rise of Sweyn Forkbeard a powerful Viking warlord. We follow the journey of Thomas, an orphaned Viking farm boy sold into slavery. He yearns for his freedom and craves for revenge. But to get it he must escape and join the largest Viking horde ever assembled. But what was once his homeland is now a prison, his neighbors now his captors. But he has sworn an oath of vengeance and will not rest until English fields run red and all England burns.

174 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2020

About the author

The New York novelist, comedy writer, and host of The Moth, has authored only the three books of humour and fiction referenced below.

Dan Kennedy is an American writer living in New York and host of The Moth storytelling podcast. He is the author of three books: "Loser Goes First" (Random House, 2004), "Rock On" (Algonquin, 2008), and "American Spirit: A Novel" (Amazon/Houghton Mifflin, 2013). A widely anthologized humorist, Kennedy first became popular as a columnist on McSweeney's dot net and as a performer of various comedic readings in downtown New York clubs. He tours occasionally, and often performs in and hosts events for The Moth, a storytelling collective founded in 1997 by novelist George Dawes Green (The Juror, Ravens).

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