Tracklist A1 Starlings Composed By
- Vijay Iyer 347 A2 Chorale Composed By
- Vijay Iyer 434 A3 Diptych Composed By
- Vijay


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A novice monk must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne
- a book of great beauty & power
- to the safety of the Iona monastery while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture

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Odin&s daughter Freya goddess of love & wisdom is appointed the task of stopping Hel & defending the future of mankind For her champion she chooses Skarin a great but troubled young warrior ignorant of the true reason for his favour with the Gods & thrust into the midst of their bitter war As Skarin players will experience unparalleled battle scenes leading the charge in a titanic clash between powerful gods & mere men War on an unprecedented scale will rage across a beautifully realised Viking landscape Vast living islands free form worlds filled with discovery stealth brutal combat & culminating in epic battles the like of which have never been seen on console before The Story of a Viking Hero
- Skarin is an uncompromising force A play-thing of the gods rebelling against their selfish agenda The definitive Viking warrior Rich Viking Lore
- The violent & glorious world of Viking mythology brought to stunning life Players will write their own legends to be told around the campfire Vast Open World Environments
- Explore uncover & fight your way across huge next-gen worlds full of combat exploration & quests High Impact Brutal Combat Engine
- Experience intensely physical melee combat Dismember enemies with deadly combat moves in a whirlwind of death Mythical Powers
- Tame dragons & command them to rain fire upon your enemies Call on magic & the power of the gods to win the mortal war Free Your People
- Liberate your Viking kinsmen from the clutches of Hel Earn their trust & their sword arm Fight alongside them in battle Epic Battles
- Lay the foundations for huge battles featuring hundreds of dynamic NPC warriors Subtly influence the battle through targeted assassination or wade in to save stricken allies Become one amongst many & turn the tide in favour of your kinsmen






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The story of a Viking Hero Skarin is an uncompromising force A plaything of the gods rebelling against their selfish agenda The definitive Viking warrior Rich Viking Lore The violent & glorious world of Viking mythology brought to stunning life Players will write their own legends to be told around the campfire Vast open world environments Explore uncover & fight your way across huge next gen worlds full of combat exploration & quests High impact brutal combat engine Experience intensely physical melee combat Dismember enemies with deadly combat moves in a whirlwind of death Mythical Powers Tame dragons & command them to rain fire upon your enemies Call on magic & the power of the gods to win the mortal war Free your people Liberate your Viking kinsmen from the clutches of Hel Earn their trust & their sword arm Fight alongside them in battle Epic Battles Lay the foundations for huge battles featuring hundreds of dynamic NPC warriors Subtly influence the battle through targeted assassination or wade in to save stricken allies Become one amongst many & turn the tide in favour of your kinsmen ...

It's 1008 AD & after being injured in a raid that goes horribly wrong Tor Scaldbane is devastated at losing his chance to be a legendary warrior But then he remembers the sagas of his ancestors; glorious bloody battles ancient heroes powerful gods & realizes that all might not be lost after all ...

A new narrative history of the Viking Age interwoven with exploration of the physical remains & landscapes that the Vikings fashioned & walked their rune-stones & ship burials settlements & battlefields To many the word Viking' brings to mind red scenes of rape & pillage of marauders from beyond the sea rampaging around the British coastline in the last gloomy centuries before the Norman Conquest It is true that Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent violent place The kings & warlords who have impressed their memories on the period revel in names that fire the blood & stir the imagination Svein Forkbeard & Edmund Ironside Ivar the Boneless & Alfred the Great Erik Bloodaxe & Edgar the Pacifier amongst many others Evidence for their brutality their dominance their avarice & their pride is still unearthed from British soil with stunning regularity But this is not the whole story In Viking Britain Thomas Williams has drawn on his experience as project curator of the British Museum exhibition of Vikings Life & Legend to show how the people we call Vikings came not just to raid & plunder but to settle to colonize & to rule The impact on these islands was profound & enduring shaping British social cultural & political development for hundreds of years Indeed in language literature place-names & folklore the presence of Scandinavian settlers can still be felt & their memory
- filtered & refashioned through the writings of people like JRR Tolkien William Morris & GKChesterton
- has transformed the western imagination This remarkable makes use of new academic research & first-hand experience drawing deeply from the relics & landscapes that the Vikings & their contemporaries fashioned & walked their runestones & ship burials settlements & battlefields poems & chronicles The book offers a vital evocation of a forgotten world its echoes in later history & its implications for the present

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A guide to the legendary Scandinavian Vikings It

Includes:: colour photographs that offer your child an 'eyewitness'

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A Times Book of the Year 'A literary intelligent read from a masterful storyteller' In 1035 a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle Left for dead for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains down the length of Russia & ultimately to Constantinople & the Holy City of Jerusalem Drawn into political intrigue he will be the lover of Empresses the murderer of an emperor; he will hold the balance of power in the Byzantine Empire in his hands & then give it all up for a Russian princess & the chance to return home & lead his own people where he must fight the demons of his past his family & his countrymen in a long & bitter war for revenge & power Told in his own voice this is the astonishing true story of the most famous warrior in all Christendom Harald Hardrada the last Viking ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Join Orlaith a Celtic princess as she learns to fight love & survive against Viking invaders hell-bent on revenge in this dark age actionadventure ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Koli a peasant boy is taken from his family & raised by Vikings Years later he fights next to them in the warrior clan Soon after finding an ancient egg the clan are attacked by a dragon thought only to exist in legends Koli in his quest to defeat the dragon discovers his true lineage & realises the fate of the world now lies with him as only he can stop the impending prophecy & become a true Viking hero ...