Snow-Walker.FISHER, Catherine. Snow, Walker. HarperCollins, Greenwillow. 503p. c2003. 0-06-072474-9. $17.99. JS Fisher's newest novel weaves a story from both Celtic and Norse mythology in a feudal feu·dal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of feudalism. 2. Of or relating to lands held in fee or to the holding of such lands. feu 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 north lands. 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. She disappears, leaving the hold with a curse that soon takes shape as a cold, slow death of the world they know. Wulfgar takes over as Jarl, but his reign is haunted haunt v. haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts v.tr. 1. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being. 2. by a mysterious creature loosed from the north by Gundrun, a creature with a deadly hunger. When Wulfgar's wife Signi falls victim to Gundrun's soul-thievery, Jessa, Kari, and their band of fop lowers have no choice but to travel into the deep white, where Kari must face off with his mother in a final battle to save the people of the Jarlshold as well as his own soul. J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. Michele Winship, Asst. Prof., Capital Univ., Columbus, OH. |
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