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The Saga of Erik the Viking Free FREE THE SAGA OF ERIK THE VIKING PDF Terry Jones,Michael Foreman | 192 pages | 06 Oct 2015 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780140322613 | English | United Kingdom The Saga of Erik the Viking - Terry Jones - Google книги Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Michael Foreman. His name is Erik. With his trusty band of men he sets sail in search of the land where the sun goes at night. In fact, he finds much more! The Sea Dragon, the Old Man of the Sea, Dogfighters and giants combine to make The Saga of Erik the Viking voyage a great saga of thrilling adv 'This is one tale of a Viking warrior who lived hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The Sea Dragon, the Old Man of the Sea, Dogfighters and giants combine to make his voyage a great saga of thrilling adventures. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published June 1st by Puffin first published More Details Original Title. Red House Children's Book Award Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Saga of Erik the Vikingplease sign up. See 1 question about The Saga The Saga of Erik the Viking Erik the Viking…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Saga of Erik the Viking. I started reading this before Terry Jones died and finished it after his death. The last chapter was therefore extra moving because it was about the main character playing chess with Death. This is a magical book. Great fun and with beautiful illustrations by Michael Foreman. Full of daring-do but also kindness and love. A fitting legacy for Terry Jones to have left. Oct 08, Noah Crocker rated it it was amazing. One of my favorite early childhood books. I wish I had found this when some of my grown up boys The Saga of Erik the Viking younger so we could have read it together, but that is my only sadness about this great book. I was absolutely delighted by Erik and his companions as they sail in Golden Dragon seeking the land where the sun goes at night. Adventure and imagination and Norse tradition all wrapped into one fun story. The book is written in chapters which can stand alone as a short story, but all together make the saga. There are some good moral lessons a I wish The Saga of Erik the Viking had found this when some of my grown up boys were younger so we could have read it together, but that is my only sadness about this great book. There are some good moral lessons addressed amid the sword play and monsters. Really a great read, I think it would make a great read-aloud. This is Terry Jones attempt at telling Viking sagas in the way that he hoped they would be, full of adventure and excitement. Told, as in the real sagas, in very episodic form, this is the adventure of Erik and his crew on the Golden Dragon as they travel the world taking on deceitful trolls, Dogfighters your actual dogs of warmystical mountains and go on to adventures at the edge The Saga of Erik the Viking the world and outwit The Old Man of The Sea. These are aimed at young teenagers, but the stories are nicely to This is Terry Jones attempt at telling Viking sagas in the way that he hoped they would be, full of adventure and excitement. These are aimed at young teenagers, but the stories are nicely told and generally great fun, while retaining something of the flavour of the original sagas. The only downside was that reading it on a black and kindle, there was no colour in the pictures, which are also delightful. One of the favored books from my childhood, remembered and passed down to my daughter. May 13, Paula rated it it was amazing. This is one of my very favorite read-alouds with children The first time I read it I shared it with my own 3 young boys. Their minds Being Scandinavian and having an intense passion for vikings when I was littlemy mother bought this book for me when I was learning how to read. At that age it seemed monstrous to me, almost like a text book, but it was filled with beautiful illustrations, so I didn't mind. This book will always be special to because it was my mother-and-me book. She used to read it to me all the time until I learnt how to read, at which point I read it to myself over and over again! My 5- year old loved this book more than any book we've ever read to him. Some of the pictures were scary but he just ate up all of the different stories and adventures Erik had- strongly recommend to anyone who has a kid who might like to hear about some viking adventures. We are seriously thinking of buying it for our home library. Feb 02, Beth Rimell rated it really liked it. This was really useful to use during our Topic of the Vikings, we used it to create our own viking saga - inspired by these stories and following a similar structure. Also as they are quite short sagas they are easy to dip in and out of! Mar 10, Sarah Johnson rated it it was amazing. Another my dad read to me and my brother as kids although my dad never finished reading The Saga of Erik the Viking to me. I tackled this Terry Jones children's book in part because I wanted to pay some kind of honour to his memory, on hearing of The Saga of Erik the Viking passing, and also because I have been long aware that the film Jones produced was an entirely different product of his imagination. Overall I was quite happy with 'The Saga. There are plenty of strange, magical, fantastic adventures herein with Erik and his band of Norsemen having their characters tested for bravery, honesty, intelligence and loyalty. Yes, 'The Saga The lack of violence makes it a very safe read for any child, and the continual emphasis on morality also hangs true on the framework of the book's thematic structure. However this is not a grievous sin of omission or commission. The illustrations are interesting, if not exactly memorable, and they do what they are supposed to do. Jones's prose is highly readable and does evoke the motifs and style of Norse literature, or at least what we perhaps expect it to be. There are also some entertaining 'adult' moments e. Erik playing chess with Death a la Bergmann's 'Seventh Seal'. Bottom line; 'The Saga of Erik the Viking' is a very good children's book and a significant product of the sadly now departed creative imagination of Terry Jones. Worth the read for Python fans and kids alike. Dec 30, Michael The Saga of Erik the Viking rated it it was amazing. When I was ten I lived in Europe. I dreamed of living on a sailing vessel with vikings. My grandest hope would be The Saga of Erik the Viking row an oar for a chief, or run afoul of spirits and dragons while voyaging to the end of the world. The land was young and every breath I would take would yield to myth. If you enjoyed Beowulf, Gilgamesh, or the Ring saga, this is the book for you. Over thirty years later these pages remind me these dreams are still with me. I The Saga of Erik the Viking waiting for my own long ship and I want to travel with Erik and his tribe. My daughter at 7 thrilled at playing chess with death and watching the vikings engage in a battle of wits with the old man of the sea. During the evenings we read this book together we both were sailing the seas as viking together. As such I highly recommend it for all ages over 6. Side note I have to include: The 30 year old copy I had read to my daughter was purchased in Germany when I was I swear even then I knew I wanted my future daughter to read and love it as I did. Saga of Erik the Red - Wikipedia From Coraline to ParaNorman check out some of our favorite family-friendly movie picks to watch this Halloween. See the full gallery. Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok. There were quite a few sections that seemed to wander along The Saga of Erik the Viking what a pity! Tim Robbins was fine in a cutesy, little boy way which is, I guess, what he was supposed to be. I couldn't help wishing he had a tad more substance. Cleese's role seemed generally uninspired with only brief moments of genius. It's possible that the print I rented from my local video shop was a bit more dingy than the original, but the stunning scenery filmed in Norway, Malta and England lost its effect. Despite these negatives, it's certainly worth watching at least once, if only for those inspired moments of comedy it contains.
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