The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

* Frans Gunnar Bengtsson ( 1894 – 1954 ), author, The Long Ships.

These have included novels directly based on historical events, such as Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's The Long Ships ( which was also released as a 1963 film ), and historical fantasies such as the film The Vikings, Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead ( movie version called The 13th Warrior ) and the comedy film Erik the Viking.

* Frans G. Bengtsson: The Long Ships Viking saga

* The Swedish bestselling historical novel The Long Ships ( Red Orm ) includes a long fictionalised account of the Battle of Maldon, described from the Scandinavian side.

* The Long Ships

A Long Line of Ships: Mare Island's Century of Naval Activity in California.

While it is perhaps not quite a match for Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's genre-defining 1941 novel Röde Orm ( later expanded and better known as The Long Ships ), Bengtsson had the advantage of being culturally closer to his sources.

However, the strategic location of the River Douglas in Glen Douglas in Lennox, near the portage at Arrochar from Loch Long ( the Loch of the Ships ) to Loch Lomond, overlooked by Ben Arthur, make it the most likely location.

* Frans Gunnar Bengtsson-The Long Ships ( part 1 )

* Frans Gunnar Bengtsson – The Long Ships ( Röde Orm )

Later, Bengtsson became widely known for his Viking saga novel Röde Orm ( The Long Ships ), published in two parts in 1941 and 1945.

The Long Ships, or Red Orm ( original title: Röde Orm ), a best-selling Swedish novel written by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, contains a vivid description of Gotland in the Viking period.

A Long Line of Ships: Mare Island's Century of Naval Activity in California.

' Almanzor ' is a major character in the thoroughly researched, but extremely anachronistic, historical novel The Long Ships ( Red Orm ) by the Swedish author Frans Gunnar Bengtsson.

The movie The Long Ships starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier was shot there in 1964.

He was seen the next year as Orm in The Long Ships, as Luke Sanderson in The Haunting, and as Lt. " Smitty " Smith in Follow the Boys.

* The Long Ships ( 1964 )

In modern days, he is also the hero of a novel called Styrbiorn the Strong by the English author Eric Rücker Eddison ( 1926 ), and he figures in The Long Ships, by Frans G Bengtsson.

* The Long Ships ( 1964 )

The Long Ships or Red Orm ( original Swedish: Röde Orm ) is an adventure novel by the Swedish writer Frans G. Bengtsson.

The first part was translated to English by Barrows Mussey as Red Orm in 1943, but later editions and newer translations by Michael Meyer use the title The Long Ships.

The Swedish writer Sven Stolpe reports that somebody asked author Frans G. Bengtsson " what intentions he had with The Long Ships ", to which Bengtsson responded that he had no particular intentions.

Early in his career, Bengtsson had held a romantic view on the saga literature, promoting an elevated, almost sacral prose in translations, but when writing The Long Ships he instead made use of the saga's faculties for wisecracks and comic understatements.

Starting from the north and running clockwise, these are: Shore Island, George Island, Rough Rock Island, Flat Rock, The Buoys, Sandy Bay Island, Black Horse Island, White Bird Island, Frightus Island, Jar Rock, Castle Point Rock, Robert Rock, Salt Rock, Speery Island, Flat Rock, The Needle, Lower and Upper Black Rock, Bird Island, Black Rock, Thompson's Valley Island, Peaked Island, Egg Island, Lady's Chair, Lighter Rock, Long Ledge, and Red Rock.

Red Guard slogans were the most violent in nature, such as “ Strike the enemy down on the floor and step on him with a foot ”, “ Long live the red terror !” and “ Those who are against Chairman Mao will have their dog skulls smashed into pieces ”.

The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang ( KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party ) army.

Although the literal translation of the Chinese Cháng Zhēng is “ Long March ”, official publications of the People's Republic of China refer to " The Long March of the Red Army " ( Chinese traditional: 紅軍長征, Chinese simplified: 红军长征, pinyin: Hóngjūn Chángzhēng ).

The Long March most commonly refers to the transfer of the main group of the First ( or Central ) Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, from Yudu in the province of Jiangxi, to Yan ' an in Shaanxi.

In a broader view, the Long March included two other forces retreating under pressure from the Kuomintang: the Second Red Army and the Fourth Red Army.

By the time of the Long March, numerous small units had been organized into three unified groups, the First Red Army ( 紅一方面軍 / 红一方面军 / Hóng Yī Fāngmiàn Jūn ), the Second Red Army ( 紅二方面軍 / 红二方面军 / Hóng Èr Fāngmiàn Jūn ) and the Fourth Red Army ( 紅四方面軍 / 红四方面军 / Hóng Sì Fāngmiàn Jūn ).

After the organization of these first two main forces, the Second Red Army formed in eastern Guizhou by unifying the Second and Sixth Army Groups under He Long and Xiao Ke.

A “ Third Red Army " was led by He Long who established his base area in the Hunan-Hubei border ; by 1932 his forces were soundly defeated and in October 1934 merged with the 6th Army Corps led by Xiao Ke to form the Second Red Army.

The original plan was to link up with the Second Red Army commanded by He Long, thought to be in Hubei to the west and north.

The Second Red Army began its own withdrawal west from Hubei in November 1935, led by He Long, who commanded the KMT Twentieth Army in 1923 before joining the Communist Party of China ( CPC ).

An advance party of the First Red Army called the Sixth Group, commanded by Xiao Ke, was sent towards the Second Red Army two months before the beginning of the Long March.

On November 19, 1935, the Second Red Army set out on its own Long March.

After an expedition of almost a year, the Second Red Army reached Bao ' an ( Shaanxi ) on October 22, 1936, known in China as the “ union of the three armies ”, and the end of the Long March.

The figure of 25, 000 li ( 12, 500 kilometres or about 8, 000 miles ) was Mao's estimate, quoted by his biographer Edgar Snow in Red Star Over China, published not long after the end of the Long March in 1938.

Their report has been disputed by the Chinese media, citing " The 25, 000 li of the Red Army's Long March are a historic fact and not open to doubt.

Negative aspects of the Long March include instances of the Red Army desperately recruiting local people through kidnapping, blackmail, and sex.

Sun Shuyun, while researching a book on the Long March, interviewed one-man who said he was barely into his teens when he was forced to join the Red Army.