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''[[The Long Ships]]'' (original title ''Röde Orm'') is the most famous work of Swedish author, poet and translator Frans Gunnar Bengtsson. The book is an adventure novel written in somewhat of the same style as [[The Icelandic Sagas]], and chronicles the life and voyages of Orm, son of Toste, known as Red Orm. The novel was published in two parts. The first appeared in 1941, the second in 1945. The action takes place in the years 982 to 1007.
Orm is the youngest son of the Scanian chieftain Toste, and is kidnapped as a young man by raiders, and goes a-viking to Spain, where he is captured, and later becomes a member of the lord Almansur's bodyguard. After an incident where he kills the slavemaster from the galley, who killed his chieftain, he is forced to flee.
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* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Lampshaded and subverted.
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* [[Badass]]: Everyone. No exception. Special mention to Olof Summerbird who caught a javelin in flight and killed its owner with it.
* [[The Berserker]]: In spite of providing the page quote, berserkers never actually show up.
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:: On one occasion seven men clear an entire boat (maybe fifty men), with enemies panicking and jumping ship in droves because they think the seven look like they ''might'' be berserkers. Then again, if seven unarmoured men attack fifty heavily armoured, the assumption isn't unreasonable...
* [[Casanova]]: Subverted by Rainald. He tries to live in celibacy, but he can't keep hands hands off women, and vice versa...
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