By Elías Snæland Jónsson
In the childrens book “Víkingagull” (or Gold of the Vikings) an Icelandic boy, Bjólfur, and a Norwegian girl, Sonja, search for a secret Viking treasure that has been buried for more than a thousand years. The novel starts in Sweden with an amazing discovery at the Royal Library in Stockholm of a single page from a lost manuscript of the original saga of a group of viking warriors called the Jomsvikings. Then the story moves to the west coast of Norway as the families of Bjólfur and Sonja sail from Bergen to Hjörungavaag, the scene of a fierce sea battle in the tenth century when the golden treasure of a famous leader of the
Jomsvikings disappeared into the sea. Bjólfur believes that the newly found page from the lost manuscript indicates what happened to the treasure. But soon it becomes clear that he is not the only one looking for the Viking gold. This leads to a nerve racking finale that is
played out in the magnificent mountains of Iceland. “Víkingagull” is a very exiting new novel that brings together our own millennium and that of the Vikings that roamed the seas of the North Atlantic in the year 1000 AD.