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The Viking
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A 1951 novel by Edison Marshall, The Viking tells the story of Ogier the Dane in the days of Ragnar Lodbrok, viceroy to King Horik of the Danes and cousin to King Harold of Norway. A slave of Ragnar all his life Ogier is the rival of Ragnar's only son, and youngest in total, by his third and youngest wife, and the first to die, the Frankish Judith of Nantes. On a day when Ragnar and his sons go hunting, Ogier reveals a gyrfalcon he had found frozen to a tree the previous winter to Hasting and it is that day when Ogier's life changes completely. Ultimately becoming the slave of the exiled Northumbrian thane Egbert, Ogier enters a larger world with Northumbria becoming a recurring location in Ogier's life.The book was adapted for the screen (with much changes in the names) in 1958 as The Vikings. | |
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The Exile | |
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The Exile: Egbert is in exile from Northumbria. By the end of it he is on his way to being King of Northumbria. | |
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The Rival | |
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The Rival: Ogier and Hasting, they later become allies but upon learning that Ogier delivered Ragnar to Aella for execution, Hasting betrays Ogier with the intention of giving him the death of the Red Eagle. | |
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Related in the Adaptation: Due to coming from two different legends, Ogier the Dane is not traditionally a son of Ragnar Lothbrok. Ivar the Boneless is identified as the son of Thora rather than Aslaug, who goes unnamed. The future Egbert I of Northumbria identifies Egbert of Wessex as his maternal grandfather, though historically there is no known relation between the two. | |
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Horny Vikings | |
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Horny Vikings: No horned helmets are mentioned but the Norsemen themselves, specifically Danes in this case, act the part. | |
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Historical Character's Fictional Relative: Morgana is the fictional daughter of Rhodri the Great. The future Egbert of Northumbria identifies Egbert of Wessex as his maternal grandfather, both men are historical figures, but Egbert of Wessex's only known child was his son and successor Aethelwulf. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The story begins with the minstrel Alan asking Ogier to tell him of his life so it can be written down. It ends years later with Alan having told the tale at a court and him being asked whatever happened to Ogier and Morgana after they went in search of Avalon. | |
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Duel to the Death | |
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Duel to the Death: Ogier and Aella fight to the death a day or so after Ogier and his men have captured Aella. | |
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Heroic Bastard | |
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Heroic Bastard: In the final chapter before the epilogue, Ogier learns that he is the bastard son of Ragnar by Enid. | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
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Bears Are Bad News: The aforementioned Ragnar's Brother. When hunting him the bear initially goes after Ragnar, as Ogier had intended, only for it to go after Egbert. It is Ogier's killing of Ragnar's Brother that ultimately earns him his freedom. | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: This is actually discussed in the story itself a few times. The first time happens when Ragnar's cousin Eric jokes that Hasting must have been fathered by a plowman. The second time happens when Morgana wonders if Ragnar could be Aella's father when she hears about Ragnar's rape of Enid, Aella's mother. Ogier then informs her that Aella had already been born by that point. The third time is an unusual inversion. Aella conjectures that Ogier is Ragnar's son, which he ultimately turns out to be correct about, and remembers what his mother Enid told him of there having been two other women in Ragnar's pavillion, Ragnar's servant the Jewess Meera and Ragnar's wife Judith of Nantes, and so wonders which of the two could be Ogier's mother. As Ogier himself tells Aella, Meera is barren and Judith is Hasting's mother. As it turns out Ogier's mother is Aella's mother Enid. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Egbert voices his opinion that Ogier is a bastard and Aella conjectures that Ogier's father is Ragnar. This foreshadows the revelation that Ogier is Ragnar's bastard son. | |
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Handicapped Badass | |
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Handicapped Badass: Hasting ends up half-blind after Ogier orders his gyrfalcon Odin's Arrow to kill the former and Ogier ends up with one hand after a failed attempt to rescue Morgana from Aella. | |
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Child by Rape | |
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Child by Rape: Ogier is revealed in the final chapter before the epilogue to have been begotten when Ragnar raped Enid, wife to the Earl of York. Hasting himself is implied to be this as well due to a mutual hatred between Ragnar and Judith. | |
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Hook Hand | |
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Hook Hand: Ogier gets one in the place of the hand he he loses. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Ogier likens Ragnar to a bear and even comes to name a bear "Ragnar's Brother." The motif extends to Ragnar's son Bjorn Ironsides whom Ogier says is most like his father out of all his sons. Ragnar's bear comparison is countered with Ogier likening himself to a wolf and when making comparisons to birds Ogier compares himself to a gyrfalcon, which becomes his initial sobriquet and even his standard, and Ragnar to a pelican. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Ogier is a pagan Dane, Morgana is a Christian princess betrothed to Aella. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: Ogier ends up an enemy of one of his paternal half-brothers and his maternal half-brother, Hasting and Aella respectively. He ends up killing them. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted. Hasting shares his name with his cousin Hasting the Cruel, who never appears in person. In order to differentiate the two the former is initially called "Hasting the Young", implying the other is older than him, and later becomes known as "Hasting Maidenface" after his face is disfigured by Ogier's gyrfalcon Odin's Arrow. | |
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Named Weapons | |
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Named Weapons: Ogier has a bow he calls his "Yew Falcon" and a spear he calls his "Iron Eagle." He names his first sword "Odin's Fang" and upon killing Aella claims his sword Requiter as his own. | |
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Youngest Child Wins | |
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Youngest Child Wins: A literal example with Ogier being the one to emerge victorious in his lifelong hate feud with Hasting. | |
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