Vinland saga. Book three / Makoto Sukimura ; translation: Stephen Paul ; lettering: Scott O. Brown.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York : Kodansha Comics, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: [English edition]Description: 452 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour), map ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781612624228; 1612624227Subject(s): Canute I, King of England, 995?-1035 -- Comic books, strips, etc | Canute, King of England I, 995?-1035 -- Comic books, strips, etc | Sweyn, King of Denmark, -1014 -- Comic books, strips, etc | Manga -- Comic books, strips, etc | Vikings -- England -- Comic books, strips, etc | Vikings -- Comic books, strips, etc | Great Britain -- History -- Invasions -- Comic books, strips, etc | Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Comic books, strips, etcGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. | Graphic novels. | Historical comics. | Action and adventure comics. DDC classification: 741.5952 Summary: In a gambit to become the power behind the Danish and English thrones, Askeladd has taken the prince, Canute, and plunged deep into a winter storm behind enemy lines. Canute's father, King Sweyn, gives him up for dead in his haste to suppress English resistance. But Askeladd's small band can't outrun the tenacious maniac Thorkell forever, and when the warriors finally clash, a storm of sweat and gore ensues that will turn a boy into a man and a hostage into a ruler of men!
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor - Graphic Novel | Northam Northam Young Adult | F YUK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111085213351 |
First published in Japan in 2007 and 2008 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, as Vinland saga, volume 5 and 6.
Reads from right to left.
Censorship classification: OT, ages 16+.
Translated from the Japanese.
In a gambit to become the power behind the Danish and English thrones, Askeladd has taken the prince, Canute, and plunged deep into a winter storm behind enemy lines. Canute's father, King Sweyn, gives him up for dead in his haste to suppress English resistance. But Askeladd's small band can't outrun the tenacious maniac Thorkell forever, and when the warriors finally clash, a storm of sweat and gore ensues that will turn a boy into a man and a hostage into a ruler of men!
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