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During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a number of books for younger readers, many of which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. The two books in this volume are re-imaginings of the Norse sagas of the early second millennium. The Swan's Road was first published in 1954, and The Land the Ravens Found followed in 1955.

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"THE LAND THE RAVENS FOUND ""Nobody knows better than Naomi Mitchison how to recreate a primitive civilization and make it alive. It is about the Norse settlement of Northern Scotland and Iceland in the tenth century and is so full of the poetry of plain things and the fascination of good detail."" Sunday Times ""The whole book is shot through with understanding of all that was best in Viking courage and endurance. Every child should enjoy reading it, and will be better for remembering it."" The Times Literary Supplement"

THE LAND THE RAVENS FOUND Nobody knows better than Naomi Mitchison how to recreate a primitive civilization and make it alive. It is about the Norse settlement of Northern Scotland and Iceland in the tenth century and is so full of the poetry of plain things and the fascination of good detail. Sunday Times The whole book is shot through with understanding of all that was best in Viking courage and endurance. Every child should enjoy reading it, and will be better for remembering it. The Times Literary Supplement

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Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon. Tireless in her writing, unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy. Her novels for adults and children stressed at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, as well her concerns for the future. She also travelled widely, wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, book reviews, political articles, and many letters.

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