Reviews

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2007
• Subjects: Christianity; Vikings; concentration camp survivors; Michaelis; European History; European Languages and Societies; Regional Sociology; Greenland; Katla
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol30/iss1/11; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/thebridge/article/1083/viewcontent/06_Reviews.pdf

The Nordic Sagas provide the background and basis for this novel about three women-Katla, a "thrall" (slave) who is the daughter of an Irish Christian woman captured by Viking Raiders along the Irish Coast before Katla was born, Bibrau, Katla's daughter, who is conceived after a brutal sexual assault, and Thorbjorg, who is a seeress and healer to the Viking settlement in Greenland and a faithful servant to the Nordic God, Odin. Fate brings these three women together and the story is told through their thoughts and feelings about each other, the events which bring them together, life in the Viking settlement, and the influence of Christianity in the world of the Nordic Gods.