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The Long Ships

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The Long Ships	comment	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.Was adapted into a series of four Comic Book-albums, between 1999-2004, by Charlie Christensen of Arne Anka fame. A movie adaptation was made in 1964, which more or less had nothing to do with the source material except the name. It has also been performed as a Radio Drama in the 90's.A new movie as well as a TV-series has been talked about since the 80's and in Development Hell since 2011. Originally, a Swedish company was going to do it, but the rights were then sold to Lars Von Triers company, Zentropa. So far there's been no movie, but it was turned into a stage play, which apparently was the biggest one in Danish theater history.
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The Long Ships / int_16838478	type	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
The Long Ships / int_16838478	comment	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: To a modern reader, the "curse of the Uppsala kings" that afflicts Styrbjörn is easily identifiable as textbook untreated Bipolar Disorder.
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The Long Ships / int_1b73fada	type	The Dandy
The Long Ships / int_1b73fada	comment	The Dandy: Olof Styrsson received the nickname "Summerbird" for his flashy clothes.
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The Long Ships / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
The Long Ships / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Father Willibald is a skilled healer, and has the cynicism and dark sense of humour to match.
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The Long Ships / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Long Ships / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The third sin of Rainald.
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The Long Ships / int_2bf1fd90	type	Proud Merchant Race
The Long Ships / int_2bf1fd90	comment	Proud Merchant Race: The Gotlanders are (or at least present themselves as) honest merchants who won their fortune without resorting to the piracy and grand-scale blackmail of their fellow Norsemen.
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The Long Ships / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Long Ships / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Orm's twin daughters Oddny and Ludmilla.
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The Long Ships / int_2f551929	type	Ode to Intoxication
The Long Ships / int_2f551929	comment	Ode to Intoxication: Khalid writes one, including a criticism of Islam for forbidding wine, which gets him convicted of blasphemy and sent to the galleys. He spends part of his captivity attempting to compose an Ode to Sobriety, but is noted to have trouble finding good things to say about water and lemon juice.
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The Long Ships / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Long Ships / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Defied by Olof Summerbird, the narration notes that "he was well pleased with this name".
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The Long Ships / int_38805691	type	Catch and Return
The Long Ships / int_38805691	comment	Catch and Return: During an altercation with the crew of a ship from Östergötland, the angry captain of the Östergötlanders hurls a spear at Orm. Olof Summerbird, standing beside Orm, catches it and throws it back, hitting the man in the shoulder. This draws much admiration from his friends and also seems to awe the Östergötlanders, who retreat without further provocations. When questioned, Olof claims it's something he learned young, but never succeeded in teaching to someone else. He also says he doesn't tell people about it after one of his cousins was severely wounded trying to repeat the stunt. This is a Shout-Out to Njal's Saga, where this feat occurs several times.
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The Long Ships / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Long Ships / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Discussed when Orm and Toke come home after their first journey, and Orm pontificates about all he has won and lost.
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The Long Ships / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
The Long Ships / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y:
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The Long Ships / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
The Long Ships / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Are to Orm, and Orm to Åsa.¨
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The Long Ships / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Long Ships / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Father Willibald is Hot-Blooded and about as abrasive as sandpaper, but he takes his duties as a healer and spiritual leader seriously, and is more than willing to go to the wire for his patients, even the ones he doesn't like.
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The Long Ships / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
The Long Ships / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Al-Mansur is the greatest ruler in the history of Muslim Spain, but because he gained his power by de-facto usurping the rightful Caliph he is wracked by guilt and fear of hell so that he constantly makes war on the Christian kingdoms in the hopes of placating Allah.
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The Long Ships / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Long Ships / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Ulf Glade.
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The Long Ships / int_4a2059bf	type	Gold Fever
The Long Ships / int_4a2059bf	comment	Gold Fever: Gets a mention. The Gotlanders who brought the blind, mute and crippled Are from the east show that he has silver left, and use the fact that they have only taken a reasonable sum to pay for his board and passage as proof of their honesty. They then say that if he had had gold, they would have stolen it and pitched him over the side because "no man can resist gold".
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The Long Ships / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Long Ships / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Just as in real life, the Norse are fond of these. The most famous one may be Toke's, after he has gone out "to piss" with a mouthy relative of an enemy of Orm's (in fact, they are going to fight, and the fiction is to avoid breaching the peace of the hall they're in):
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The Long Ships / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
The Long Ships / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Or rather Swedish. Averted, since while Bengtsson wrote in the style of the sagas, he consciously used the formal academic grammar and spelling of the early 20th century that he had assimilated and become a master of. Ironically, the impact of the book was so big that most Swedish authors that set out to write historical fiction emulate him. Even if they know that it's anachronistic, and especially if they try to avoid it.
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The Long Ships / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
The Long Ships / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Berserkers are talked about but we never actually see one in action. 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... At one occasion two men who are given to Orm as servants by a jealous neighbor. He is told that they are berserkers, but will not berserk if they are kept fed, and are the hardest workers in Skania. Orm thinks he may have been bluffing for some time, as they eat so much that he thinks the neighbor wanted to bankrupt him. Only then he sees them work, and work they do. As much as several men. However, when his daughter Ludmilla says she will sit by the river with the stronger, in the ensuing battle they both prove that they truly were berserkers. Then Orm kills them both with a broom handle.
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The Long Ships / int_5db7301f	type	Prophetic Names
The Long Ships / int_5db7301f	comment	Prophetic Names: Inverted, characters are given names due to events or characteristics. Examples are Red Orm (Red hair and fiery temper) Olof Summerbird (colourful clothing), Kolbjörn Burnt-in-his-house (should be self-explanatory), Grinulf (Glasgow Grin), Harald Bluetooth (oversized blue eyeteeth) ... Almansur considers Orm (meaning "snake" or "serpent") to have one, because of his quick tongue and fondness for snarky comebacks.
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The Long Ships / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Long Ships / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Subverted by Rainald. He tries to live in celibacy, but he can't keep his hands off women, and vice versa...
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The Long Ships / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
The Long Ships / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: The Thing at Kraka-Stone.
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The Long Ships / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
The Long Ships / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Lampshaded and subverted. During the duel with Sigtrygg, Orm is injured and credits his Spanish mail shirt with his survival. Chapter two also gives us this: Played straight in the comics. Only one single man is ever seen wearing a shirt of mail.
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The Long Ships / int_6ad19559	type	Wine Is Classy
The Long Ships / int_6ad19559	comment	Wine Is Classy: Wine-drinking is the province of the widely travelled, and Olof Summerbird offers Orm wine when they first meet.
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The Long Ships / int_78da8795	type	Dowry Dilemma
The Long Ships / int_78da8795	comment	Dowry Dilemma: When Orm first approaches king Harald to ask about marrying Ylva, Harald chastises him (gently) for not knowing his financial status, and if he is capable of supporting his daughter in style. However, he also notes he won't hold it against him, since he is young and in love, and has been abroad for a long time.
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The Long Ships / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Long Ships / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Orm and Sigtrygg.
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The Long Ships / int_7d14c988	type	A Tankard of Moose Urine
The Long Ships / int_7d14c988	comment	A Tankard of Moose Urine: Orm is not taken with kumis (fermented horse milk). It's strong, and that's the nicest thing he has to say.
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The Long Ships / int_83bc57c0	type	Slave Galley
The Long Ships / int_83bc57c0	comment	Slave Galley: A couple of years in this is the reason why Orm is left-handed.
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The Long Ships / int_864009e9	type	Pirate Booty
The Long Ships / int_864009e9	comment	Pirate Booty: The main plot of the last book is about retrieving a treasure.
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The Long Ships / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
The Long Ships / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: While celebrating Yule at king Harald's it is mentioned that it is considered unbecoming for a true Viking warrior to not understand poetry. In the same scene Toke (who prided himself on his skill with verse) breaks down crying, when he hears a poem by one of Styrbjörn's Icelanders and realizes he will never be that good. Both Orm and Toke, who are acknowledged as exceptionally badass even by Viking standards, are also both decent amateur poets. Orm is also noted from early on as being a very good storyteller.
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The Long Ships / int_88fd6847	type	Converting for Love
The Long Ships / int_88fd6847	comment	Converting for Love: Orm has to convert to Christianity to marry Ylva. He takes it in his stride, having already converted to Islam when living with the Saracens. Olof Summerbird converts to Christianity to marry Orm's daughter Ludmila. Considering that this is the same man who advocated for murdering all Christians on sight... yes, it's a big step, and portrayed as such. Toke inverts the trope, refusing to convert because of love. His common-law wife is Muslim and spent many years as a prisoner/slave among Christians. She hates Christianity with a passion. Toke outright says that as much as he likes Orm and Father Willibald, he is not prepared to go against his wife in this.
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The Long Ships / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
The Long Ships / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: The killing of the overseer. While numerous other revenges seem only slightly reasonable under the circumstances, tradition dictates that Orm &:co must take revenge for their chief the moment they spot his killers, and damn any other oaths and obligations.
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The Long Ships / int_a859f080	type	Agent Peacock
The Long Ships / int_a859f080	comment	Agent Peacock: Olof Styrsson is so obsessed with flashy clothes and jewelry his own men needle him for his dress sense, giving him the nickname "Summerbird" for his resemblance to a bird in mating season. Olof, the narration notes, actually likes the name. As for his badass credentials, he was a fighting member of the Varangian Guard for nearly a decade, and is capable of doing a Catch and Return with javelins.
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The Long Ships / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
The Long Ships / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Both Orm and Toke find, much to their surprise, that they actually like the abrasive and angry Father Willibald. Toke puts it down to that the good Father is too much of a cynic to make any serious conversion attempts.
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The Long Ships / int_aa4be36a	type	The Three Faces of Adam
The Long Ships / int_aa4be36a	comment	The Three Faces of Adam: The kings Styrbjörn, Erik and Harald fills this role with Styrbjörn as the Hunter, Erik as the Lord and Harald as the Prophet. Orm laments their deaths as the strongest, the mightiest and the wisest of kings, respectively.
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The Long Ships / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Long Ships / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Since the book is set the late 10th- early 11th century, and is written in the styles of the Icelandic sagas of the period, there is casual slavery, casual warfare, casual robbery, and casual religion switching for pragmatic purposes. Olof Summerbird's Norse values clashed hard with the Decadent Court of Byzantium. Above all, he considers the Byzantine belief that it is less evil to mutilate than kill proof that all Christians are irredeemably evil and should be killed on sight (though he considers both Orm and Father Willibald honourable and "as good men as if they had never been in contact with Christianity").
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The Long Ships / int_aed29b5c	type	Die Laughing
The Long Ships / int_aed29b5c	comment	Die Laughing: Styrbjörn is killed at Uppsala by a spear through the neck just when he is laughing at the approaching Swedish army.
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The Long Ships / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Long Ships / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Åsa, somewhat unreliably.
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The Long Ships / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Long Ships / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Defied. When Orm is to ransom Blackhair from the Patzinak, he is ordered to pay the boy's weight in silver. Everyone present praises Orm for not using the obvious loophole of demanding the boy be weighed naked.
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The Long Ships / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Long Ships / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Bengtsson detested the Nazis, which is probably the reason he included the sympathetic Jewish silversmith Salaman in the story.
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The Long Ships / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Long Ships / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Åsa, having lost three sons to various unfortunate mishaps, tends to mother Orm quite vigorously, preventing him from going raiding with his brother and father, and leaving him with something of a hypochondriacal streak.
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The Long Ships / int_b903671c	type	Emergency Multifaith Prayer
The Long Ships / int_b903671c	comment	Emergency Multifaith Prayer: Orm and his friends have a rather lackadaisical view of religion. At one point they are facing hard weather at sea and decide to make sacrifices to the norse god of the winds, to a Christian saint, and to Allah, just to cover all their bases.
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The Long Ships / int_ba433104	type	Prophecy Armor
The Long Ships / int_ba433104	comment	Prophecy Armor: The eleven sons of Sone who join Orm's voyage to Rus' receive a prophecy from their father that only seven of them will return to him. When four of them have died, the remaining brothers start to behave with utmost recklessness in combat, because, having absolute trust in their father's clairvoyance, they believe they cannot be killed as long as they do not return home. Even though they are somewhat dismayed by the realization that they still can be wounded, when Orm returns to Scania they decide to stay with Orm and do some more adventuring instead of going home, because in that case their lives would be no longer protected by the prophecy.
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The Long Ships / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
The Long Ships / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Averted. The ships are barely mentioned, in spite of the title (which is the English translation only; the original Swedish is simply Röde Orm)
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The Long Ships / int_c3bc970f	type	Seers
The Long Ships / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: Åsa and Sone the Sharp-sighted, neither of whom conform to any of the usual seer tropes.
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The Long Ships / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Long Ships / int_c9790040	comment	Olof Summerbird's Norse values clashed hard with the Decadent Court of Byzantium. Above all, he considers the Byzantine belief that it is less evil to mutilate than kill proof that all Christians are irredeemably evil and should be killed on sight (though he considers both Orm and Father Willibald honourable and "as good men as if they had never been in contact with Christianity").
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The Long Ships / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
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The Long Ships / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: Styrbjörn's death at Uppsala. Justified since the whole point of the campaign was to make Styrbjörn king, and with him dead there wasn't much point in continuing.
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The Long Ships / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Orm's sword Bluetongue, Toke's sword Redbeak, Styrbjörn's sword Lullaby and Jostein's axe Widowgrief. Mythical weapons including Gram also get mentioned.
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The Long Ships / int_f54f6719	comment	Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: After being captured and enslaved in Spain, Orm and his companions serve for several years in the guard of Al-Mansur, de facto ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate in Iberia. Olof Summerbird and Orm's brother Are served in the Varangian Guard for the emperor in Constantinople.
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The Long Ships / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: The Archimandrite of Alexandria is mentioned to have been a bandit in his earlier life, and kills a member of the Varangian Guard with a single blow from his lead-beaded rosary.
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The Long Ships / int_ffea0f47	comment	Situational Hand Switch: Orm is of the situational variety. After being a galley slave for years, and always rowing a port-side oar, he was "put right-handed to the oar and taken away left-handed". It is noted that he prefers to throw javelins with his right hand throughout his life, but uses his left for anything else. It is also remarked that this makes fighting more difficult both for him and whoever he's facing, since neither man can position his shield quite properly.
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