Review: Norse jewel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2013
In the land of the Franks in AD 1022 Helena, a chattel stolen from her village by Danish warriors, looks over a trading scene.  She has been injured while being captured, and is warned that she should find a good master or risk worse injury. A chieftain who wishes to settle to a farming life on his homestead is looking for steady servants, and his arm ring bears a NORSE JEWEL.Helena is valuable because she has a smattering of a few languages, and Hakan the Norse chieftain has to haggle for her.The details are well researched and Helena, who first wants to return to her village, comes to her sense and starts making a new life for herself, using her skills at weaving wool and linen as well as herbal lore to earn her keep. She faces dangers as well as friendship in the lands of the Nor'men and eventually comes to value their cleaner way of life than that of the Frankish.This is suitable for young adults as well as adults and is an entertaining and informative historical romance.