Black Gate

By Bill Ward

The Vikings have inspired tales of daring adventure almost from the dawn of historical fiction. H. Rider Haggard’s Eric Brighteyes still makes fine reading today, and one of Edison Marshall’s best novels, The Viking, inspired a film adaption with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. Even more famous, and finer, novels followed, like Charles Barnitz’ The Deepest Sea and Frans Gunner Bengtsson’s The Long Ships, the first third of which made it onto technicolor starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. And of course it goes without saying that the Viking sagas themselves make for pretty stirring reading.

This week Bill Ward takes a look at an author whose making his own mark in the genre. The second book in Robert Low’s series just saw print: Bill decided to take a look at the first before he ventured further onto The Whale Road.

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