First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press " Magnus" is George Mackay Brown's tour de force
- his most poetic & innovative book He links the twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney's brutal murder at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson to that of the philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer murdered by the Nazis during World War II A unique exploration of the eternal questions of guilt goodness & personal sacrifice