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The King's Honour

This is the last volume of the trilogy about Christian IV and his women, whom we have encountered in The King’s Mark (2006) and The King’s Women (2008). This is a broad and dramatic tale from a time of upheaval in Norway and Denmark’s history, in the intersecting point between faith and superstition, between the magic of the renaissance and the rationalism of modern times. Erling Pedersen brings the past close and makes it come to life through his thorough portraits of the complex human being Christian IV and the women in his life.

Praise for The King's Honour:

“He can tell a good tale, he has powerful material, and he is master of his language and composition technique. (…) Both author and book deserve many readers, especially since Erling Pedersen succeeds in creating multifaceted characters in his story, along with the historical backdrop, which in itself is nearly unlimited in its abundance. These are so fully described that we feel the spirit of the age, the large European drama, and the single fortunes in the author’s fiction.(…) Erling Pedersen treats his material so historically and humanly true that the story he builds doesn’t become a historical entertainment novel, but rather a historical novel with resonance in one of our national- and regional history’s most dramatic periods.”

(Tønsberg Blad)

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