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Title: The Thrall's Tale
Review: Judith Lindbergh, The Thrall's Tale (Penguin 2007) depicts the Norse settlement in Greenland in the 10th century (the epoch of Eric the Red). The protagonists are a woman slave (or thrall) of Irish extraction (a crypto-Christian in the twilight of the traditional Norse gods), her daughter (the product of a brutal rape), and the elderly seeress who takes them both in. The writing is almost poetry. It not only puts the reader into that world; it puts you into their skins.I found it quite absorbing.
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