How Long to Read The Hammer and the Cross

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hammer and the Cross?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 8 minutes to read The Hammer and the Cross by Robert Ferguson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. The attack on Lindisfarne was a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods at Uppsala around 1090. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls �the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history�. His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia � the eddas, the poetry of the skalds and the sagas � is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries and the evidence of picture-stones, runes, ships and objects scattered all over northern Europe, to make the most convincing modern portrait of the Viking Age in any language. The Hammer and the Cross ranges from Scandinavia itself to Kievan Rus and Byzantium in the east, to Iceland, Greenland and the north American settlements in the west. Beyond its geographical boundaries the book takes us on a journey to a misty region inhabited by Hallfred the Troublesome Poet, Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Hairy-Breeches, Ivar the Boneless and Eyvind the Plagiarist, in which literature, history and myth dissolve into one another.

How long is The Hammer and the Cross?

The Hammer and the Cross by Robert Ferguson is 648 pages long, and a total of 167,184 words.

This makes it 219% the length of the average book. It also has 204% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hammer and the Cross Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 13 minutes to read The Hammer and the Cross aloud.

What Reading Level is The Hammer and the Cross?

The Hammer and the Cross is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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