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[QUOTE="arilliusbm:1110535"]Zombies, werewolves, vampires, and . . . Vikings? Yes, the ferocious, globe-trotting rapists, pillagers, and marauders who traveled the known world of the Middle Ages as far as the Charles River � you have doubtless seen the Leif Erikson tower in Waltham � may be popular culture�s latest object of fascination. Consider: ■ Eric Northman, Sheriff of Area 5, a vampire district in Louisiana, and owner of the Fangtasia bar, is a star of the HBO hit �True Blood.�� The son of a Viking king, the fictional Eric not only has vampire crossover cred, but he recently learned that werewolves murdered his family a thousand years ago. Vamps, Vikes, and werewolves: the pop-cult trifecta. All hail the HBO script scribblers! ■ Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan is working on a Viking script for Leonardo DiCaprio, �The Departed�� producer Graham King, and, um, Mel Gibson, according to the Los Angeles Times. �There�s never been a good Viking film, not that I�ve seen,�� Gibson told the Times this spring. �The real problem is making those guys sympathetic. They were monsters.�� Watch who you�re calling a monster, Mr. Gibson! ■This week Brian Wood publishes the latest installment in his successful series of Northlanders graphic novels, which �explore the life and times of history�s most infamous civilization.�� Here is the plot summary of the latest release: �Erik, a blacksmith living in Viking-era Norway, meets Ingrid, a poor girl fallen in with corrupt Christian missionaries. When the unlikely lovers find themselves duly banished from their respective societies, they launch a crusade of violent retribution!�� ■New York Review Books has just republished �The Long Ships,�� Frans Bengtsson�s engaging 1954 epic that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon claims to have read four times. �It is really good,�� he enthuses in a new introduction. ■ Chatham�s Bernard Cornwell says he plans to start writing the fifth volume of his best-selling �Saxon Tales�� shortly. (Volume four, �The Burning Land,�� appeared last year.) �The Saxon books are all about the Vikings, whatever we mean by that,�� he wrote in an e-mail, �or specifically the big Danish invasion of Britain in the 9th and 10th centuries which provoked the formation of England. They sell very well (thank god), and I�ll be starting a new one very soon.�� What�s the allure? The Vikings don�t take guff from anyone, that�s for sure. I�ve been reading �The Long Ships,�� and the Norsemen seem refreshingly unburdened by any bothersome moral codes, other than revenge, which is a recurring theme. If you lived near the coast � any coast � between 850 and 1000 AD, watch out for the guys in the goatskins and the funny helmets. If they decided to enslave you, that was a good thing. More often they axed first and posed questions later. �The Vikings knew what gave life meaning, behaving well under duress,�� says Farmington, Maine-based bookseller Kenny Brechner, an unabashed Nordophile. �Their emphasis on integrity of character, stark and unflinching, still calls out to us with the allure of an enchanted mirror.�� Brechner partly credits Stieg Larsson�s successful thrillers with reawakening interest in Scandinavian literature. �I am a huge saga fan,�� Brechner says, explaining that he managed to sell 15 customers a $300 Icelandic government-funded �The Complete Sagas of Icelanders,�� available in five volumes. �It seemed nuts, but my enthusiasm carried the day,�� he says. What else is Brechner pushing? He likes �Thief Eyes,�� a recent Random House release for younger readers that integrates elements of the Icelandic Njal saga into the modern romance of 16-year-old Haley and Ari, �a boy with a dangerous side.�� Other Brechner faves from the frozen Norseland: H. Rider Haggard�s �Eric Brighteyes�� (�A gripping tale of betrayal, blood-gorged blades, and the pursuit of heart�s desire��) and �Styrbiorn the Strong,�� which he calls �a masterpiece of world literature now criminally out of print. My goal in life is to see people reading that book again.��[/QUOTE]
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