The Long Ships

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Copyright © 1954 by Frans G. Bengsston

Introduction copyright © 2010 by Michael Chabon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bengtsson, Frans Gunnar, 1894–1954.

[Röde Orm. English]

The long ships / by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson; [translated from the Swedish by

Michael Meyer]

p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

Originally published: London: Harper Collins, 1954.

ISBN 978-1-59017-346-6 (alk. paper)

1. Vikings—Fiction. 2. Tenth century—Fiction. 3. Middle Ages—Fiction. I.

Meyer, Michael Leverson. II. Title.

PT9875.B43R613 2010

839.7'372—dc22

2009050090

eISBN 978-1-59017-416-6

v2.0

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