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A saga based on Norse mythology follows two warrior clans whose fates are interwoven throughout seven generations by a mighty god and centers on a land of howling snows, golden summertime loves, trollcraft, blood oaths, and proud ships. Reprint. PW.

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Golden sunlight glittered from the Rhine's depths like a fire in the flood, brightening the dark waters into the torchlit grandeur of a river-king's hall.

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Book 1: The Draught of Memory
Prelude: Sigifrith's Gift
1. The First Beginning
2. The Gold
3. Otter's Weregild
4. Dragon and Dwarf
5. Planting the Seed
6. The Sword
7. Sigilind's Wedding
8. The Frowe
9. A Victory
10. The Warg
11. Revenge's Beginning
12. The Testing
13. Sigilind and Sigimund
14. Sigilind's Son
15. Sinfjotli
16. Revenge
17. Sigimund's Wooing
18. Faring Home
Book II: Sigifrith the Walsing
1. The Smith's Apprentice
2. The Gebicungs
3. The Colt
4. Gram
5. Kinsmen
6. Sigifrith's Inheritance
7. Fadhmir and Ragin
8. The Awakening
Book III: The Death of Athelings
1. Along the Rhine
2. Brunichild
3. The Weddings
4. Ostara
5. The Queens
6. Wodan's Gift
7. Attila
8. Grimhild's Death
9. The Fall
10. The Rhine's Gold
Historical and Background Notes and Glossary

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  1. Stephan Grundy (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 1, 1995
ISBN: 978-0553569452
Page Count: 830 pages

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