Æsa

Author : Sabrina Voerman
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039121133

Get Book

Æsa by Sabrina Voerman Pdf

In 1783 Mount Laki erupted, leaving Iceland in famine. The sirens surfaced to help man, forming a bond between them. Árelía and Prince Eiríkur joined together to keep peace among the two species, and peace was kept until greed and gluttony consumed Prince Eiríkur. Twenty-five years later, there hasn’t been a siren sighted in six years. Until Æsa is discovered by siren hunters and everyone is after her, some for show and some for feasting, while others may have intentions far more sinister. Nikolai has escaped a violent past. Jealousy, betrayal, hatred, and murder entrench his family, and he no longer wants any part of it. However, his brothers won’t let him go and seek him out. Nikolai knows they are coming for him and is ready to accept his fate. But he has one last thing to do before he does—and he must have Æsa to do it. Æsa does not trust man and never will; in fact, she despises them. But Nikolai is not a man. Tragic, powerful, and darkly beautiful, Æsa is the second book in the Blood Bound series.

Author : Renee Vincent
Publisher : Renee Vincent
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944484118

Get Book

Tempered Steel by Renee Vincent Pdf

Gustaf Ræliksen lives by the blade of his sword. After avenging his father's murder and reuniting with his family, he wants nothing more than to settle down and have sons of his own. Only one woman will do—a beautiful redheaded thrall he saved from the spoils of war. Free from slavery and those who kept her captive, Æsa has nothing to offer the noble warrior except her heart. But when someone with a deep score to settle seeks revenge and the whereabouts of buried silver that only Æsa knows, she must break Gustaf's heart in order to spare his life. Gustaf’s world is torn asunder, and he has but one vow—saving the woman he loves from the dangerous rival who will stop at nothing to have it all. *Previously published as The Temperate Warrior. (This new edition has been partially rewritten and professionally edited, along with a new title and new cover.)

Author : Kate J. Armstrong
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593463284

Get Book

Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong Pdf

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a dazzling new fantasy world full of whispered secrets and political intrigue, the magic of women is outlawed but four girls with unusual powers have the chance to change it all. Magic is illegal in Simta, but for the right price, the wealthy can always partake. They need only procure a visit with a Nightbird, girls who can gift their rare powers with a kiss. Usually a tight-knit group, this Season’s Nightbirds couldn’t be more different. Matilde, the group’s veteran, relishes the feeling of power and freedom she thinks her Nightbird status affords, but rebels against her family’s growing expectation that she finally choose a suitor and pass her magic on to the next generation; fiery orphan Sayer, resigned to this life as a means to support herself, resents each transaction and the world Matilde so reveres; and novice Æsa, fears her own magic and thinks her very existence is a sin. But when the Nightbirds find themselves at the heart of a deadly political scheme that shakes the world as they know it, they must put their differences aside and band together to fend off those who would exploit them. In doing so, they discover their magic is more powerful than they could have ever imagined, and they see the Nightbirds system for what it is: a gilded cage. United, they are a potent force that could upend the patriarchal system that would hunt them as witches. But wielding their power could cost them more than they are prepared to lose. They must make a choice: to remain kept birds or take control, remaking the city that dared to clip their wings. Fiercely feminist and set in a thrilling, intoxicating world evoking the Jazz Age—full of speakeasies with magic cocktails, sharp-edged, duplicitous glamour, and handsome rogue alchemists—Nightbirds is an exciting debut fantasy that dazzles as powerful girls emerge from the shadows to determine their own fates.

Author : Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473621572

Get Book

The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Pdf

'Yrsa is a magnificent writer' Karin Slaughter 'The queen of Icelandic thriller writers' Guardian A chilling note written by a thirteen-year-old predicting the deaths of six people is found in a time capsule, ten years after it was buried. Can it be a real threat? Detective Huldar turns to psychologist Freyja to help understand the child who hid the message. But the discovery of the letter coincides with a string of murders. All of the victims match the initials from the note. Huldar and Freyja must race to identify the writer and the murderer, before the rest of the targets are killed... 'One of the best books I've read for a long time: dark, creepy, and gripping from beginning to end.' Stuart MacBride 'Will give you thrills and chills in equal measures.' Cosmopolitan

Author : Jürg Glauser,Pernille Hermann,Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1479 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110431483

Get Book

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies by Jürg Glauser,Pernille Hermann,Stephen A. Mitchell Pdf

In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110625455

Get Book

The Saga of the Jómsvikings by Anonim Pdf

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast, launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga’s account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.

Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon,Frederick York Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013397430

Get Book

Origines Islandicae by Guðbrandur Vigfússon,Frederick York Powell Pdf

Author : Guðbrandur Vigfússon,Frederick York Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : English literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858008413670

Get Book

Book 1. Settlement and settlers. Book 2. The old constitution. Book 3. Conversion and the early church of Iceland by Guðbrandur Vigfússon,Frederick York Powell Pdf

Author : Norman Francis Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Sagas
ISBN : UCAL:B4375984

Get Book

The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Norman Francis Blake Pdf

In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts of the battle became the basis for one of the liveliest of the Icelandic sagas, with special emphasis on the doings of the Jomsvikings, the famed members of a warrior community that feared no one and dared all. In Lee M. Hollander's faithful translation, all of the unknown twelfth-century author's narrative genius and flair for dramatic situation and pungent characterization is preserved.

Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Iceland
ISBN : UOM:39015002702796

Get Book

Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset Pdf

Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Scandinavian literature
ISBN : UVA:X001478861

Get Book

Scandinavian Classics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Saints
ISBN : NYPL:33433061822445

Get Book

The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould Pdf

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Saints
ISBN : UGA:32108028935362

Get Book

November, pt. 1 by Sabine Baring-Gould Pdf

Author : Eiríkr Magnússon,William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Iceland
ISBN : NYPL:33433075840672

Get Book

The Saga Library by Eiríkr Magnússon,William Morris Pdf

Author : Eiríkr Magnússon,William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Iceland
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021013479

Get Book

The Saga Library: The story of the Ere-dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga) with the story of the Heath-slayings (Heiðarvía Saga). by Eiríkr Magnússon,William Morris Pdf