God's Daughter
One Viking woman. One God. One legendary journey to North America. In the tenth century, when pagan holy women rule the Viking lands, Gudrid turns her back on her training as a seeress to embrace Christianity. Clinging to her faith, she joins her husband, Finn, on a journey to North America. ...
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One Viking woman. One God. One legendary journey to North America.
In the tenth century, when pagan holy women rule the Viking lands, Gudrid turns her back on her training as a seeress to embrace Christianity. Clinging to her faith, she joins her husband, Finn, on a journey to North America.
But even as Gudrid faces down murderous crewmen, raging sickness, and hostile natives, she realizes her greatest enemy is herself--and the secrets she hides might just tear her marriage apart.
Almost five centuries before Columbus, Viking women sailed to North America with their husbands. God's Daughter, Book One in the Vikings of the New World Saga, offers an expansive yet intimate look into the world of Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir--daughter-in-law of Eirik the Red, and the first documented European woman to have a child in North America.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00GAJKV8G
Publish date: October 29th 2013
Publisher: Heather Day Gilbert
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
Series: Vikings of the New World Saga (#1)
I've given this book three stars because it held my interest enough to make me want to finish it but its lack of any major plot was a problem. It seems to be more intended as a commentary of life for a Viking who was a Christian than trying to follow any particular story, although there was one. It ...