The Axe: The MAster Of Hestviken, Vol. 1
Sigrid Undset
ISBN: | 9780307773067 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Published: | 6 February, 2013 |
Format: | eBook |
The Axe: The MAster Of Hestviken, Vol. 1
Sigrid Undset
Set in 13th-century Norway, The Axe is the first volume in Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it, we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother and sister. In the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link in a chain of murder, exile, and disgrace. Undset's novel is also a meticulous re-creation of a world split between pagan codes of retribution and the rigors of Chris
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