The thrall's tale
By: Judith Lindbergh
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780452288171
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Middle Ages; Women slaves; Fiction
Description: A tale set in Viking Greenland at the turn of the ninth century follows the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future, from the slave Katla, who anticipates the promise of a new land; to Bibrau, the daughter born to Katla after a brutal rape; to the prophetess Thorbjorg, who teaches Norse magic to Bibrau.
Notes: "A Plume Book."
Table of contents: title: The voyage; title: Hope; title: A freewoman's claim; title: Flurry of falcons; title: The changeling; title: From that smoke wafts up a being; title: Rake and broom; title: The prophecy; title: Blood; title: The Christ has come; title: The quality of mercy; title: My father (deceiver); title: Jaegers' meat; title: Resurrection; title: Sounds as happy children make; title: The girl who sits in the blue.