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    HACON THE KING - A True Story of a Viking King: Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 296
    HACON THE KING - A True Story of a Viking King: Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 296
    HACON THE KING - A True Story of a Viking King: Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 296
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    HACON THE KING - A True Story of a Viking King: Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 296

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 296
    In this 296th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Norse/Viking story of “HACON THE KING.”
    Hacon is but a babe when is father dies in battle and the Kingdom of Norway splits into two camps. One supports the babes right to the throne and the other wants to claim the throne for their Pretender.

    Realising the problem, Babe Hacon and his mother are spirited North and hidden by loyal followers whilst the armies of the Pretender scour the country for him, but the snowdrifts through which Queen Inga and Hacon had won their way proved too deep for them, and they went back to Erling Stone-wall, whom they had chosen king. Starving from lack of food, they are rescued and led to safety.
    Hacon, protected by Thorir the archbishop grew up in relative peace and was educated in the ways of kingship in preparation for the day in which he would be ready to assume his rightful role.

    These then are the adventures of young King Hacon from the time he was a babe to the time he assumed the crown of Norway and for the long time thereafter when he led Norway through one of the most peaceful and prosperous times in it’s history.
    You are invited to download and read the story telling of how he did this throughout his long and fruitful life.

    Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

    Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.

    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateMay 18, 2017
    ISBN9788826438795
    HACON THE KING - A True Story of a Viking King: Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 296

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      HACON THE KING - A True Story of a Viking King - Anon E. Mouse

      HACON THE KING

      A Norse Tale of Kings

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      Published By

      Abela Publishing, London

      2017

      HACON THE KING

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      ©Abela Publishing 2017

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format

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      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2017

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 296

      Email:

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website:

      www.AbelaPublishing.com

      An Introduction to Baba Indaba

      Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

      In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

      In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories

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