Hrafninn

Naaja grows up in an Inuit village in Greenland in the fifteenth century, an outsider among the people by the glacier, where a web of rules and taboos is meant to ensure that the mother of the sea sends animals to hunt. After fateful events she is driven away together with her eccentric father, branded a witch, and hardship brings out a strength that lets her endure the cruellest adversity. In the wilderness her path becomes entwined with that of Norsemen at Norðurseta, their hunting grounds at the edge of the world.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

312 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greenland, 15th century

First published

2005 by Mál og menning

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9789979326816 (original)