Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather,chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen,flightless in her exile.
Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy,a daughter of the Rhine,a prize for an invading king - a king whose brother Attila has other plans,and a dragon to call upon.
And in the songs to be sung,there is another hero: Sigurd,a warrior with a sword sharper than the new moon.
As the legends tell,these names are destined to be lovers,fated as enemies. But here on Midgard,legends can be lies...
For not all heroes are heroic,nor all monsters monstrous. And a shieldmaiden may yet find that love is the greatest weapon of all.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008567736Number of pages: 320Weight: 530 gDimensions: 240 x 159 x 30 mm
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Praise for The Valkyrie:
'Reading The Valkyrie,I felt as if I were meeting old friends again for the first time. Kate Heartfield as taken a story I've read in many incarnations and still surprised and delighted me. Practically every sentence is a brilliant kenning,glittering brightly enough to match Fafnir's hoard. This fierce and imaginative retelling,full of history and magic,does for the Ring Cycle what Atwood's Penelopiad did for The Odyssey'- Chadwick Ginther
'The Valkyrieis a richly-told and deeply-felt tale about finding ones place in the world. A sharp,radiant book to fit the women whose stories it recounts. Kate Heartfield is one of those rare writers who always make me feel as if what they're writing,no matter how fantastical,is true. Whatever she told me in a story,I would believe it. Gods,dragons and all.'- Natalia Theodoridou
'The Valkyriesings,like the epic it is,without ever letting go of its groundedness,its bloodiedness. A secret history of the sagas,a story from behind the stories of old-a war story,a love story that,once you see it emerge gleaming and gory from those bardic silences,seems like it was always there.'- Vajra Chandrasekera
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