Auður

Auður, daughter of the Viking chieftain Ketill Flatnose, grows up in the Hebrides, high-born and fiery. Her whole family is pagan, but when she meets the monk Gilli she is drawn both to him and to his message of the White Christ. Once of age she is given in marriage to Óláfr the White, king of Dublin in Ireland. Their bond is passionate but stormy, and her friendship with Gilli costs her dearly, in an age when Norsemen seized the islands off Scotland, raided the western seas and fought bloody battles among themselves.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

267 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

United Kingdom, Ireland

First published

2009 by Mál og menning

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789979330950 (original)