Infobox book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Godwulf Manuscript image Image The Godwulf Manuscript cover.jpg 200px image caption 1st edition author Robert B. Parker country United States language English language English series Spenser fictional detective Spenser genre Detective novel publisher Houghton Mifflin release date 1973 in literature 1973 media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages 186 pp isbn 0 395 18011 2 followed by God Save the Child The Godwulf Manuscript is the debut crime novel by Robert B. Parker Plot summary Set in the early 1970s, this novel serves as the introduction to Spenser character Spenser , a private investigator in Boston . Spenser is hired by Bradford W. Forbes, the Chancellor education president of an unnamed university heavily implied to be Northeastern University Northeastern to recover a stolen illuminated manuscript , a medieval document of great historical and literary importance. It is being held ransom by an unknown organization that demands 100,000 be donated to a Anarchistic free school free school for the manuscript s return. It has no inherent monetary value and cannot be Fence criminal fenced . Head of campus security Carl Tower recommends investigating a radical student group called SCACE Student Committee Against Capitalist Exploitation and their secretary, Terry Orchard. After talking to her and boyfriend Dennis Powell, Spenser receives a call from Terry in the middle of the night requesting help. Spenser arrives at her apartment to find Dennis murdered, the killer having used Terry s gun, and Terry under the influence of an unknown drug. He determines that the murder is an attempt to frame Terry and from that point is determined to clear her name, believing the missing manuscript ... Spenser DEFAULTSORT Godwulf Manuscript, The Category 20th century American novels Category 1973 novels Category Spenser novel series Category Debut novels no Godwulf manuskriptet ... more details
Image Fl map.jpg right thumb Map of Gulsvik Gulsvik is a village in Fl , Buskerud , Norway . ref http www.dokpro.uio.no perl navnegransking rygh ng rygh visetekst.prl?s e&Vise Show&KRYSS85895 4019542 on Gulsvik Flaa Norske Gaardnavne ref The name Gulsvik is connected to the original farm of Gulsvik. The Gulsvik farm was known from the middle ages , when the owners were among the most prominent people in lower Hallingdal . Gulsvik is reckoned to be an old Norwegian folkland , which never came directly under the crown. The name Gulsvik is believed to derive from Gudulv Godwulf , shortened to Gul , the name of the bay of Godwulf, a natural bay in the area. In the late middle ages, the owners of Gulsvik farm were noblemen in allegiance to the king of Norway . The old Gulsvik clan is said to be one of the most widespread families in lower Buskerud, descending from a Birkebeiner soldier in the service of King Sverre . Dating from 1430 , the farm became divided, as time passed into upper, middle and lower Gulsvik Gulsvik nordre , Gulsvik mellom and Gulsvik s ndre . ref http www.dokpro.uio.no cgi bin stad matr50 Buskerud, Fl Matrikkelutkastet av 1950 ref This area is called Gulsvik Farthing Gulsvikfjerdingen and contains a number of farms. The wider area south of Gulsvik was settled just as early, and the proper name of the area is Southern Fl Municipality, reckoned from the border of Kr dsherad up to the end of Kr deren lake Lake Kr deren Innsj en Kr deren . The Gulsvik Farthing is to the north, close up to Hallingdal gate, an entrance into the valley of Hallingdal. Bergensbanen railway terminated at Gulsvik Station from 1908 until the line was completed in 1909. Located at the top of Kr deren Lake Kr deren , Gulsvik was a key port on the lake. When the ferry over Kr deren Lake Kr deren was established, Gulsvik became the natural port on the northern side, with accommodations for tourism . ref http home.online.no jdigrane norway stationeries 02.htm Gulsvik Station Cent ... more details
Geat, Godwulf, Finn, Frithuwulf, Frealaf, Woden. Geat, the earliest name in this genealogy, has been ... of names in the earlier genealogies being Frealaf Frithuwulf Finn Godwulf Geat. Of the first four ... more details
working for the Central Intelligence Agency CIA , encounters Godwulf for the first time, and is then finally ..., Godwulf, and the Redeemers, he battles Hellinger. ref Captain America 286 288 ref Some time later, the Earth ... battled the Collins Deathlok, Siege John Kelly Siege , and Godwulf. ref Deathlok vol. 2 31 34 ref ... more details
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