The Vikings were brave sailors and fierce robbers. They sailed on ships with dragon heads and brought fear to the peaceful inhabitants of coastal areas. They also believed in the tree Yggdrasil, on which different worlds were strung, dreamed of getting to Valhalla after death and composed sagas about everything that happened in their lives.
Mauri Kunnas, a living classic of Finnish children's literature, writes and illustrates sagas that will help even the youngest children understand who these Vikings were.
Kunnas's medieval Scandinavia is populated by valiant dogs, resourceful cats, phlegmatic boars, ferocious wolves and hapless badgers. The Native Americans are lactose-intolerant raccoons, and Constantinople is ruled by a hippopotamus.
In addition to hilariously funny tales and sagas, the book includes descriptions of Viking ships, homes and cities, a list of Scandinavian gods, a map of the inhabited world known to the Vikings and an approximate diagram of the Viking world order.
Recommended reader age: 4+
Author: Mauri Kunnas
Artist: Mauri Kunnas, Tarja Kunnas
Translation: Anna Petrovna Sidorova
Year of release: 2016
Publisher: Rech
Pages: 48
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 285x235x7 mm
ISBN: 978-5-9268-2069-7