Eric Brighteyes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eric Brighteyes, credited to H. Rider Haggard, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Eric Brighteyes, by H. Rider Haggard. Read by Brett W. Downey. The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed 'Brighteyes' for his most notable trait), strives to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair. Her father Asmund, a priest of the old Norse gods, opposes the match, thinking Eric a man without prospects. But deadlier by far are the intrigues of Swanhild, Gudruda's half-sister and a sorceress who desires Eric for herself. She persuades the chieftain Ospakar Blacktooth to woo Gudrida, making the two men enemies. Battles, intrigues, and treachery follow. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eric Brighteyes
• Author credits: H. Rider Haggard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 10:17:17

Catalogue topics

• historical fiction
• adventure
• haggard

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - How Asmund the Priest Found Groa the Witch — 15:52
2. 02 - How Eric Told His Love to Gudruda in the Snow on Coldback — 20:55
3. 03 - How Asmund Bade Eric to His Yule-Feast — 16:40
4. 04 - How Eric Came down Golden Falls — 17:50
5. 05 - How Eric Won the Sword Whitefire — 26:58
6. 06 - How Asmund the Priest Was Betrothed to Unna — 18:08
7. 07 - How Eric Went up Mosfell Against Skallagrim the Baresark — 24:07
8. 08 - How Ospakar Blacktooth Found Eric Brighteyes and Skallagrim Lambstail on Horse-Head Heights — 19:17
9. 09 - How Swanhild Dealt with Gudruda — 17:29
10. 10 - How Asmund Spoke with Swanhild — 17:08
11. 11 - How Swanhild Bid Farewell to Eric — 20:59
12. 12 - How Eric Was Outlawed and Sailed a-Viking — 23:27
13. 13 - How Hall the Mate Cut the Grapnel Chain — 15:57
14. 14 - How Eric Dreamed a Dream — 26:47
15. 15 - How Eric Dwelt in London Town — 16:03
16. 16 - How Swanhild Walked the Seas — 19:09
17. 17 - How Asmund the Priest Wedded Unna, Thorod's Daughter — 16:06
18. 18 - How Earl Atli Found Eric and Skallagrim on the Southern Rocks of Straumey Isle — 17:33
19. 19 - How Koll the Half-Witted Brought Tidings from Iceland — 18:32
20. 20 - How Eric Was Named Anew — 18:52
21. 21 - How Hall of Lithdale Took Tidings to Iceland — 15:11
22. 22 - How Eric Came Home Again — 17:38
23. 23 - How Eric Was a Guest at the Wedding-Feast of Gudruda the Fair — 14:59
24. 24 - How the Feast Went — 16:11

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