{"product_id":"9781593730895","title":"A Dream of Dragons: A Saga in Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003eNORWAY, 1894\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlav — son of Erik Bjørnsson — seventeen,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eswung his father's scythe and dreamed:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe singing scythe Grandfather Bjørn had made\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand honed each time he found a bit of shade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand passed on to his oldest son\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto pass on to his oldest son\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto pass until there were no longer sons —\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe scythe hissed like the grains of sand on the beach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat hiss when a wave falls back and the bubbles burst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wind that whispered through the grain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand dried the sweat upon his arms and chest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebore from the west the scent of salt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the distant rumble of the Norwegian Sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Viking Age began more than a thousand years ago when the ancient Norse perfected their swift-sailing, dragon-headed longships. Young men, and later whole families, left Norway's rugged fiords in search of open land, trade, treasure, or fame. Many others took to the unknown sea simply because something vague and irresistible beckoned to them. They settled islands all across the North Atlantic and landed in North America more than four hundred years before Columbus. Their exploits are recounted in the ancient Norse sagas. A Dream of Dragons is a proper and modern Norse saga, written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse, as irresistible as the beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts of Mary Azarian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bunker Hill Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036777103600,"sku":"9781593730895","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593730895_p0.jpg?v=1763812548","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593730895","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}