Beowuff & the Dragon Raiders

‘Dogs, goats, Vikings, half-wits, monks, gold, and arrows - how could this book not be great?!! It is all about a dog called Beowuff who lives in Viking times. He finds himself becoming the hero he was desperately trying not to be. He ends up in a number of scrapes in an effort to save a load of monks who don’t eat meat! It can have some challenging moments with difficult words but if you keep going it is a stunning roller-coaster of a book - sometimes, you are laughing out loud; other times you are on the edge of your seat with real tension. Some of the stuff I read gave me a great idea about what it would be like to live in Viking times (cold and hard). And I also learned not to eat yellow snow.’ Cameron, (aged 8) for Young Archaeologists Club Magazine.

Professor Burns-Longship BA. MA. MoKC speaks five languages (three of them ‘dead’ and one on its last legs). Despite his widely reported spat with Dr Sven Smugaxe of the Stockholm Institute of Vikingology, Professor Burns-Longship is still generally acknowledged to be the world’s leading authority on Viking dogs. He lives and works in the charming village of Wuffton-Basset, although his field-trips take him everywhere from Oxford to Oslo. When not translating Beowuff sagas, he writes for The Village Blog.