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The Valkyrie
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Description: * Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel* From Sunday Times bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology's greatest epics With a brilliant heroine at the helm this richly detailed character - driven story renders epic mythological battles on a human scale Publishers Weekly Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy a daughter of the Rhine a prize for an invading king a king whose brother Attila has other plans and a dragon to call upon. And in the songs to be sung there is another hero: Sigurd a warrior with a sword sharper than the new moon. As the legends tell these names are destined to be lovers fated as enemies. But here on Midgard legends can be lies For not all heroes are heroic nor all monsters monstrous. And a shieldmaiden may yet find that love is the greatest weapon of all.
Title: The Valkyrie
Author(s): Heartfield Kate
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Barcode: 9780008567774
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/22/2024
Category: Norse Religion & Mythology
Description: * Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel* From Sunday Times bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology's greatest epics With a brilliant heroine at the helm this richly detailed character - driven story renders epic mythological battles on a human scale Publishers Weekly Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy a daughter of the Rhine a prize for an invading king a king whose brother Attila has other plans and a dragon to call upon. And in the songs to be sung there is another hero: Sigurd a warrior with a sword sharper than the new moon. As the legends tell these names are destined to be lovers fated as enemies. But here on Midgard legends can be lies For not all heroes are heroic nor all monsters monstrous. And a shieldmaiden may yet find that love is the greatest weapon of all.
Title: The Valkyrie
Author(s): Heartfield Kate
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Barcode: 9780008567774
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/22/2024
Category: Norse Religion & Mythology