Plot summary. Jack is kidnapped by berserkers from his Saxon village in the year A.D. 793, an occurrence forewarned by his mentor the Bard. "The Sea of Trolls blends ancient history and Norse epics with recognizable bits of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings" (The New York Times).Jack is kidnapped by berserkers from his Saxon village in the year A.D. 793, an occurrence forewarned by his mentor the Bard. The Sea of Trolls. Jack is kidnapped by berserkers from his Saxon village in the year A.D. 793, an occurrence forewarned by his mentor the Bard. The Sea of Trolls. The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer About the Book. The Sea of Trolls conveys, more vividly than any textbook, the Vikings' storied fatalism, their devotion to heroic death and to a savage afterlife in Valhalla. Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide) Farmer, Nancy, 1941- and R. H. Britton, The Sea of Trolls. “The Sea of Trolls blends ancient history and Norse epics with recognizable bits of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings” (The New York Times). The Sea of Trolls (2004) is the first volume of a fantasy trilogy by three-time Newbery Honor winning author Nancy Farmer.The second part is The Land of the Silver Apples (2007), and the final volume, The Islands of the Blessed, was published in 2009.. The Sea of Trolls Trilogy book. The Sea of Trolls is a fantasy novel for children, written by American author Nancy Farmer and published by Atheneum in 2004. “The Sea of Trolls blends ancient history and Norse epics with recognizable bits of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings” (The New York Times). News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. This paperback boxed set includes all three volumes of The Sea of Trolls Trilogy: The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples, and The Islands of the Blessed. 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