‘The Saga of Olav Sleggja’ in colour

For a limited time, you can buy the entire 156-page viking graphic novel ‘The Saga of Olav Sleggja’ by Øystein Runde and coloured by Anakata’s Seth Piper for a very reasonable $5. There is a free sample here and the payment page is here; you will be contacted shortly afterward by email with a download link.

Although not published by Anakata Comics, Seth Piper has contributed with colouring the entire work and this is the first time a colour version is available in any format. It is also the first time the work is available in English.

Slaggja (‘Sledgehammer’) was well received when first released in 2009, and was nominated both for the Sproing prize and the Norwegian Department of Culture’s comic prize. The print version is still available from Samlaget in Nynorsk (New Norwegian). Their summary of the story translated roughly as follows: ‘We meet Olav Sleggja, who is in debt to king Olav Tryggvason. He will carry out a final mission before he can be free: to kill the brother of the King. The Saga of Olav Sleggja captures the tone of the sagas in comic form with added black humour’.

*UPDATE- as of January 2012 this download is no longer available*