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I much prefer the books set in Roman Britain, of this series, than this Norse turn that it's taking. Possibly because Roman Britain is an interest of mine, but not one I know in any sort of depth, whereas I do Norse myth and saga, and can translate parts of sagas... Stories about, rather than from, the Norse countries tend to fall flat with me now. They don't capture the spirit of the real Norse stories, which I know quite well by now.
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This is so far my least favorite of the Sutcliff books I've read. Bjarni Sigurdson is a young Viking kicked out of his home for accidentally murdering a priest, and he proceeds to have various adventures all around the British Isles. It sounds like it should be exciting. It isn't. I don't know whether the book being a posthumously-published draft had anything to do with it, but Bjarni is awfully boring and I dislike him intensely. Basically, he's a jerk, and mostly he wanders around being a jerk
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