Swain's Burning by Arthur D. Howden Smith is about the fierce and proud son of Swain Olaf as he rides the high seas. Excerpt: "Tossing waves and a chill wind from the north. The Pentland Firth was a heaving gray floor; the cliffs of Caithness lowered dark in the south, outlined by the white tempest of the rushing surge, torn by the fangs of the black rock reefs that stretched in an interminable barrier, striving, always unsuccessfully, never dismayed, to ward off ocean's assault upon the land."