{"id":1675,"date":"2015-10-21T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T02:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?page_id=1675"},"modified":"2015-11-16T20:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T01:47:05","slug":"the-strongbow-saga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?page_id=1675","title":{"rendered":"The Strongbow Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In an emotion and action filled story with the power of James Clavell\u2019s <em>Shogun<\/em> and the scope and grandeur of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>, Judson Roberts\u2019 <em>Strongbow Saga<\/em> transports the reader back to the 9th century.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VikingWarrior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VikingWarrior-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"VikingWarrior\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VikingWarrior-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VikingWarrior-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VikingWarrior.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Halfdan, the son of an Irish noblewoman and the Danish chieftain who captured and enslaved her, has grown up a slave in his own father\u2019s household. A cruel twist of fate both frees Halfdan and robs him of the mother he loves, setting him upon the path to a new destiny. But a brutal act of treachery and murder upends Halfdan\u2019s new life, sending him on the run with ruthless hunters hot on his trail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004GNFV0Q\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004GNFV0Q&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=judsonroberts-20&amp;linkId=ANRJAUDCAX23WN6C\">Buy Book 1 of The Strongbow Saga: <em>Viking Warrior, <\/em>on Amazon:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004GNFV0Q\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004GNFV0Q&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=judsonroberts-20&amp;linkId=ANRJAUDCAX23WN6C\">Kindle edition $2.99 \/ Paperback $12.99 \/ Audio Book $17.95<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An epic tale told across five volumes (the fifth and final installment to be released in 2016), the <em>Strongbow Saga<\/em> follows Halfdan\u2019s quest for justice and vengeance in a vividly drawn story which immerses the reader in the Viking world, and carries them from the Scandinavian homelands to France, Russia, England, and Ireland, through dangerous journeys and fierce battles, through love lost and found.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story\u2019s setting is not the Viking world you might think you know.<\/strong> The result of almost twenty years of in-depth research, the <em>Strongbow Saga<\/em> reveals a highly developed culture in which honor was valued more than life itself, a society which was based on a strong belief in the sanctity of the law and the right to individual freedom, which had an impact on western history and culture which is seldom understood or appreciated today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?page_id=1687\">Reviews of <em>Viking Warrior<\/em>, Book 1 of the <em>Strongbow Saga<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?page_id=1675\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an emotion and action filled story with the power of James Clavell\u2019s Shogun and the scope and grandeur of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Lord of the Rings, Judson Roberts\u2019 Strongbow Saga transports the reader back to the 9th century. Halfdan, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?page_id=1675\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_landing.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1ITYA-r1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}