Thorgils of Treadholt

by Maurice Hewlett

Overview

A sturdy tale of Norse days and the long career of Thorgils, a positive youth who grew into a man of action. He sailed on an expedition with Eric the Red and was shipwrecked. His party spent two years on an island, where some of his thralls revolted and killed his wife. But these wild circumstances had their ending; Thorgils returned to his own country and was acknowledged great even by those who had grown powerful in his absence.

-Publishers Weekly, Volume 91

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663513823
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/06/2020
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923) was an English historical novelist, poet & essayist most famous for his work "Forest Lovers". He was a close friend of J.M.Barrie. Hewlett's 1900 novel The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, about Richard the Lionheart, was a favourite novel of T. E. Lawrence. Lawrence said he had read The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay several times. Another of Hewlett's historical novels was The Queen's Quair (1904), about Mary, Queen of Scots. The Queen's Quair was cited as an influence by Ford Madox Ford, who said that The Queen's Quair "taught me a good deal". Hewlett also wrote six novels based on the Icelandic Family sagas, these include The Light Heart and Thorgils of Treadholt. Hewlett also wrote The Outlaw (based on Gisli's Saga), A Lover's Tale (based on Kormak's Saga), Frey and His Wife (based on Ogmund Dytt's tale), and Gudred the Fair (based on the Greenland sagas).