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Young Kelpies is an imprint of Floris BooksFirst published in 2016 by Floris Books

Text © 2016 David MacPhail. Illustrations © 2016 Floris BooksDavid MacPhail and Richard Morgan have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 to be identified as the Author and Illustrator of this work

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the prior permission of Floris Books, Edinburgh www.florisbooks.co.uk

The publisher acknowledges subsidy from Creative Scotland towards the publication of this volume

British Library CIP data availableISBN 978-178250-233-3Printed in Great Britainby Bell & Bain Ltd

For Daniel – D.M.

To Viking Isobel, the Fish Gobbler – R.M.

This book is also available as an eBook


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“BREAKFAAAAASSSSSST!”


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CHAPTER 1Breakfast time in any Viking house was a messy

business, but in the house of Harald the

Skull-Splitter, the famous Viking chief, it was

complete chaos. It was a bit like a chimpanzees’

tea party. The big daddy of all chimpanzees’ tea

parties, in fact, where the chimpanzees were three

times bigger and seven times more quarrelsome.

The house was a whirlwind of flying furniture,

flying food and flying fists. Harald’s three eldest

sons were having a wrestling match in the middle

of the kitchen floor.

“BREAKFAAAAASSSSSST!”


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The eldest was Wilfred the Spleen-Mincer, who’d

just got back from a gap year invading Russia.

Next there was Sven the Head-Crusher, who’d

been away at Viking university. His special subjects

were kidnapping and ransom.

And finally Hagar the Brain-Eater, who’d spent

the last year tracking and hunting polar bears in

the frozen north because, as he put it, “One of them

looked at me funny.”

“Take that, chicken brain!” cried Wilfred, hoisting

a heavy sideboard into the air and launching it in

Sven’s direction.

“RRRAAAAARRR!” roared Sven as he dodged the

sideboard, snatched a fallen vase from the floor and

smashed it over Hagar’s head.



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“GRRRRR!” growled Hagar, shaking bits of vase

out of his hair before grabbing a chair in both

hands and breaking it over Wilfred’s back.

The three boys looked a lot like their father,

except Harald’s beard was bigger and bushier, of

course. He’d won the award for Viking Beard of the

Year four times in a row.

“Ha! That’s my boys,” said Harald, beaming

proudly and beating his mighty fist on the table.

Beside Harald, at the centre of this whirlwind, sat

his youngest son, whose Viking name was rather

different from the others: Thorfinn the Very-Very-

Nice-Indeed.

Thorfinn stood up, a kind smile spreading across

his face, and raised his helmet to his father.


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“Good morning to you, dear Dad.” He was the

exact opposite of Harald’s other sons. He was the

nicest, most polite Viking who had ever lived.

Thorfinn sat back down and admired his carefully

placed eggcup, knife, spoon and neatly folded

napkin. He calmly cut his toast into soldiers and

sipped pinecone tea, totally unruffled by the chaos

going on around him. In fact he was humming.

“Hmm, hmm, hmm… hmm. Dum-de-dum…”

Thorfinn’s pet pigeon, Percy, a lovely speckled

bird, was perched on the table beside him,

cheerfully pecking up a few leftover crumbs.

The three older boys grappled with each other in

the middle of the floor and crashed into the breakfast

table, catapulting Thorfinn’s egg across the kitchen.


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SPLAT T T !“ENNOUGHH!” screamed another voice, the

fearsome, high-pitched cry of a Viking woman.


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you don,t like g

runting or

splatting – RAAAAR!P.S. Also contains

flying elks, rotten fish and itchy bottoms

You might think all Vikings are

But Thorfinn is no ordinary Viking!

ROUGH, TOUGH,HAIRY SMELLY.and

MEAN,

Trading cards inside!

theTh rf nn N cest V k ng

Thorfinn and his three brothers race across the North Sea to rescue their mum, who’s been kidnapped.Canher before it’s too late?

find

Als

o a

s

an e

Bo

ok

DiscoverKelpies.co.uk

£5.99 US $6.95 elpiesYoung

9 7 8 1 7 8 2 5 0 2 3 3 3

ISBN 978-178250-233-310000

theTh rf nnN cest V k ng

David MacPhail

and the RaidersRaging

ThOrfIn

n and t

he r

aging r

aid

ers

david

MacPh

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