The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow, credited to Allen French, 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 The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow by Allen French. Read in English by Erin Schellhase Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neighbor. Outlawed from Iceland, Rolf travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck, enslavement, Viking berserkers, and many other dangers and adventures. All the while, Rolf searches for a way to prove his father was killed unjustly and win back his own property and freedom. Even more difficult, Rolf must end the cycle of enmity, vengeance, and pride that hangs like a curse over his family. - Summary by Erin Schellhase

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
• Author credits: Allen French
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 6:25:47

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Preface — 4:39
2. 01 - Chapter I - Of the Lighting of the Beacon — 17:19
3. 02 - Chapter II - Of the Soursops, and the Curse which Hung on Them — 7:14
4. 03 - Chapter III - Kiartan at Cragness — 13:01
5. 04 - Chapter IV - Of Einar and Ondott — 10:16
6. 05 - Chapter V - The Summoning of Hiarandi — 5:37
7. 06 - Chapter VI - Of What Hiarandi Should Do — 4:29
8. 07 - Chapter VII - How Hiarandi Received the Lesser Outlawry — 13:42
9. 08 - Chapter VIII - Of Schemings — 11:33
10. 09 - Chapter IX - Of the Outcome of Ondott's Plottings — 9:57
11. 10 - Chapter X - How Rolf Named Witnesses for the Death of Hiarandi — 7:59
12. 11 - Chapter XI - Of Rolf's Search for One to Surpass Him with the Bow — 11:00
13. 12 - Chapter XII - Of the Trial of Skill at Tongue — 7:27
14. 13 - Chapter XIII - Of That Robber — 14:36
15. 14 - Chapter XIV - How Rolf and Einar Summoned Each Other — 9:11
16. 15 - Chapter XV - Of Suits at the Althing — 9:38
17. 16 - Chapter XVI - The Act of Distress — 7:30
18. 17 - Chapter XVII - Rolf and Frodi Fare Abroad — 4:53
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII - How Those Two Came into Thraldom — 10:37
20. 19 - Chapter XIX - Now Men Are Shipwrecked — 12:12
21. 20 - Chapter XX - How Rolf Won His Freedom — 21:58
22. 21 - Chapter XXI - How Rolf Won the Viking's Bow — 20:40
23. 22 - Chapter XXII - Now Kiartan Returns — 16:09
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII - Of the Coming of Earl Thorfinn — 7:30

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