VANDRAD THE VIKING: The Feud and the Spell

J. Storer Clouston

Mar 2010 · Abela Publishing Ltd

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Long after King Estein had joined his fathers on the little holm beyond Hernersfiord, and Helgi, Earl ofAskland, had become but a warlike memory, the skalds of Sogn still sang this tale of Vandrad the Viking. It contained much wonderful magic, and some astonishingly hard strokes, as they told it; but reading between their lines, the magic bears a strong resemblance to many spells cast even at this day, and as for the sword strokes, there was need for them to be hard in Norway then. For that was the age of the making of many kingdoms, and the North was beginning to do its share....... 33% of the net sale will be donated to Charities.

About the author

Joseph Storer Clouston (23 May 1870 – 23 June 1944) was an Orcadian author and historian and the son of noted psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston.

Educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer. Author of no less than 39 novels, soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.