Fisher, Catherine. Snow-walker.FISHER, Catherine. Snow-walker. HarperCollins, Greenwillow. 625p. c2004. 0-06-072476-5. $7.99. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2004: Fisher weaves a story from both Celtic and Norse mythology in a feudal world terrorized by Gundrun, a Snow-Walker from the edge of the world. Gundrun comes back to the Jarlshold with Ragnar, the lone survivor of a war band sent to defeat the Snow-Walkers terrorizing the northlands. When through treachery Treachery See also Treason. Aaron plots downfall of Titus. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] Achitophel traitorous Earl of Shaftesbury. [Br. Lit. Ragnar becomes the new Jarl jarl n. A medieval Scandinavian chieftain or nobleman. [Old Norse.] , she reigns with an icy hand, using her sorcery sorcery: see incantation; magic; spell; witchcraft. Sorcery Sorrow (See GRIEF.) sorcerer’s apprentice finds a spell that makes objects do the cleanup work. [Fr. to control the people of the Jarlshold through fear, even sending her only son Kari into exile in the north. Jessa and her cousin Thorkil are the youngest in the line of Wulfings, the family that has always produced the Lord Jarl. Because they are a threat to Ragnar's leadership, she sends them in exile to Thrasirshall, where the mysterious Kari is imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- . Banding together, they return to Jarlshold where Kari challenges his mother's rule and saves his soul. This single volume was originally a trilogy, published in Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. more than ten years ago. Michele Winship, Asst. Prop, Capital Univ., Columbus, OH |
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