num_pages: 306
description: Set in the wild edge of the world in the 10th century No Snakes in Iceland is the story of Edgar an English poet adrift in the world of his enemies the heathen Vikings. Though far from home and seething with bitter hate Edgar is recruited by a strange young man to come to a farm in a far-off glacial valleyand kill a ghost. Accompanied only by his confessor Sifrid and an arrogant young monk Edgar rides to the winter-bound farm and meets hostile fighters outlaws berserks a family torn asunder by a generation of strife and always looming the fearsome mound-dweller that terrorizes the farmstead by night. No Snakes in Iceland is the story of both one man lost and lonely in the world and of a world in the grip of supernatural forces it cannot understand.
language: English
title: No Snakes in Iceland
publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform