Along the way, they will face angry sea gods, hostile giants, and an evil fire-breathing dragon. If all goes well, they will sail Magnus’s magic boat safely across the Atlantic, defeat Loki, and return in triumph to battle and die in Valhalla for centuries to come. Its up to Magnus and his friends to stop him, but to do so they will have to sail across the oceans of Midgard, Jotunheim, and Niflheim in a desperate race to reach Naglfar before its ready to sail. Jack, his talking disco sword, hangs around his neck in pendant form, ready to be drawn at a moment’s notice. Samirah, Alex, Hearthstone, Blitzen, Halfborn, Mallory, and T.J. So when the call comes for him to depart, he answers.

Since Magnus and his einherjar friends in Valhalla will perish that day, he’d prefer Naglfar to stay right where it is. His destination is Naglfar, the Ship of Nails, also known as the Ship of the Dead. If Naglfar sets sail, it will signal the beginning of Ragnarok, the Day of Doom when the giants destroy the gods in a Nine Worlds‑ending battle. theshipofthedead-rickriordan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t87j25x32 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocrdetectedlang en Ocrdetectedlangconf 1. Rick Riordan Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Book 3) Paperback 1 October 2018 by Rick Riordan (Author) 9,225 ratings Book 3 of 3: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 198.01 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. If that weren’t horrifying enough, Loki, the silver-tongued trickster god who recently escaped his poison-soaked prison, is the ship’s captain. As big as a battleship, it’s manned by giants, monsters, and zombie warriors called draugr, and constructed completely out of the fingernails and toenails of dead people. His destination is Naglfar, the Ship of Nails, also known as the Ship of the Dead. The high-dive training-instruction courtesy of his cousin Annabeth’s boyfriend, Percy Jackson-is necessary if he’s going to survive his upcoming overseas voyage.

Unfortunately, he’s stuck with option one. So, given the choice between repeatedly jumping from the yardarm of Old Ironsides into Boston Harbor and hanging out in his comfy room in Hotel Valhalla? Well, three guesses which he’d go for. Ever since he fell off the Longfellow Bridge into the Charles River and died, Magnus Chase has had a thing against falling from great heights into water.

The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan