GOD WILLS IT!
It all started with a Viking raid: When he is captured and forced into slavery, Aillil the Irishman must pretend to be a priest or die. Better to be a high-value priest than a low-value corpse, he thinks, and so it happens that a failed novitiate (he loved women too well) is taken up by Norway's first Christian lord, Erling Skjalgsson to bring the Word to his people.
Ironically, though "Father"Aillil is as phony as a three-dollar psalm, he and he alone must convert a fiercely pagan people to the gentle teachings of Christ—and they don't want to hear about it. Nor do their "gods," who are all too real, and all too liable to do something horrible to those disturbing their divine peace.
It's going to take a miracle for Aillil to succeed, or even survive, but fortunately God (the one true God, not those pagan demon creatures) is on his side. . . .
| Publisher's Note: Part of this novel was previously published as Erling's Word. |
"... many fierce battles, both •with men and with sendings from the other gods ... a Norse saga wrapped in a hair shirt . . . introspective and bloody. . . ." —VOYA
"The book is not for spiritual sissies . . . rowdy action and a realistic look at the human and spiritual costs of religious and cultural conversion." —Florida Today
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Product ReviewGreat book made history come alive.
I learned a lot about vikings, knew about the drinking and curoising, getting to know home life was very interesting.
Wish I'd had you as my history teacher!
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Product ReviewReally nice, well written.
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Product ReviewThere's a glaring historical inaccuracy here. In the time in which this story is set to take place, catholic priests are not fobidden from marrying. Some even kept concubines. Celibacy wasn't really fixed as mandatory until 1563 at the Council Of Trent. Before then, you could see married priests. The church stopped them from doing it so that they'd stop leaving land and worldly posessions to their families and, instead, they'd leav it all to Mother Church.
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