FREJA – SAGAN OM VALHALLA – FREYA – THE STORY OF VALHALLA

By Johanne Hildebrandt

Freya – the Story of Valhalla is the first part in the trilogy.
Freya lives on the island of Vanaheim in the Baltic Sea sometime during the Bronze Age. Freya is a young priestess of the moon goddess and the daughter of Vanaheim’s queen. One day the chief of Hallunda arrives to inform them that a warlike people –the Æsirs – who burn and pillage on the mainland has attacked his country. Freya and two other priestesses are sent to mediate a peace between the different groups. But their mission fails and the war becomes a fact. Freya is set on revenge, but then the extraordinary thing happens when Freya rescues the Æsir chief’s son Thor and they find themselves falling in love.

First published by Forum, Sweden, 2003
384 pages

Denmark, Forum
Finland, Schildts
Germany, Dot Books
Iceland, Skjaldborg
Norway, Bazar
Sweden, Forum
Sweden, Bonnier Book Club
Sweden, Talande böcker
Sweden, Månpocket

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