When his village is attacked, he forms a crew of soldiers and pursues the raiders. Harald is now a mature man who enjoys a peaceful life of farming with his wife and sons. Eventually Harald returns home to Norway via the great ship-portage on the Dnieper. He has a complicated series of adventures which takes him to a giant's treasure cave in Ireland, then Jebel Tarik ( Gibraltar), then to Miklagard (the Norse name for Constantinople) where he joins the famous Varangian Guard. Harald is now a young man whose father has died. They come to grief on an island in the Hebrides. Harald is an adolescent who sails on a raid to Scotland. He goes on three voyages, which between them are representative of the various voyages which were made by the Vikings, and which take place at different stages in his life. The three novels describe the adventures of Harald Sigurdson, a Norwegian Viking. Treece wrote several juvenile historical novels, some set during the Viking Age, and this trilogy is regarded as among his best. They are Viking's Dawn, The Road to Miklagard and Viking's Sunset. The Viking Trilogy is a trilogy of juvenile historical novels by Henry Treece. Viking Trilogy Viking's Dawn, The Road to Miklagard, Viking's Sunset JSTOR ( July 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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