While the story’s conflict feels like a cautious shrug, it remains an interesting piece, with Scandinavian-myth inspired characters. Sigurd, the youngish protagonist, deals with the loss of his home and his beloved grandmother, only to be swept up with the very people she had warned him about. He...
Their departure, however, was delayed by the arrival of a high-wheeled trader’s cart drawn by a craggy-hipped old horse, accompanied by a wizened little man with a tall walking staff. The cart was loaded with goods from a merchant ship, which old Vidskipti intended to trade to the settlements for...