Grim Gruesome Viking villain in The cursed sword
By: Rosalind Kerven
Series: Grim Gruesome Viking villain
Publisher: Talking Stone
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Morpeth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780953745432
Subjects: Vikings; Juvenile fiction
Other titles: Cursed sword
Description: The story is set in a larger-than-life Viking world, where Bjarni the pigboy and Astrid, the landowner's daughter have a budding romance and no future until a massive and mysterious figure looms out of the mist. He says he is Astrid's uncle and suggests that Bjarni should try making his fortune as a pirate. But it isn't giving too much away to reveal that this is Grim Gruesome himself and he soon has both children firmly under his spell. He is an unredeemable monster, who just hates children, for no apparent reason, but hasn't allowed for how resisitant these two are.
Notes: Cover and spine title: The cursed sword.