| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
459 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Richard Jackson Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-459). |
| Contents |
Gathering the lambs -- Apprentice -- Shadow across the water -- Valley of the lunatics -- Hrothgar's golden hall -- Wolf-headed men -- End of days -- Rune of protection -- Rider on the nightmare -- Olaf one-brow -- Shield maiden -- Slave market -- Olaf explains the afterlife -- Lost bird -- Bold heart -- Gizur thumb-crusher -- Rune -- Sea of trolls -- Homecoming -- Wise woman -- Golden bristles -- Heide's prophesy -- Olaf's triumph -- Quest -- Jotunheim -- Dragon -- Deadfall -- Glory -- Frozen plain -- Death from the sky -- Capercaillie -- Ice bow -- Fonn and Forath -- Hall of the mountain queen -- Yggdrassil -- Mimir's well -- Queen's gifts -- Spider music -- Farewell to Jotunheim -- Freya's fen -- Lucy's return -- Jack and Jill -- Welcome home. |
| Summary |
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers. "Of course. People don't make ships and swords unless they intend to use them." The year is A.D. 793. In the next months, Jack and his little sister, Lucy, are enslaved by Olaf One-Brow and his fierce young shipmate, Thorgil. With a crow named Bold Heart for mysterious company, they are swept up into an adventure-quest that follows in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings. Other threats include a willful mother Dragon, a giant spider, and a troll-boar with a surprising personality -- to say nothing of Ivar the Boneless and his wife, Queen Frith, a shape-shifting half-troll, and several eight foot tall, orange-haired, full-time trolls. But in stories by award-winner Nancy Farmer, appearances do deceive. She has never told a richer, funnier tale, nor offered more timeless encouragement to young seekers than "Just say no to pillaging." |
| Audience |
010-013. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 16.0 81202. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Subject |
Mythology, Norse -- Fiction.
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Druids and druidism -- Fiction.
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Vikings -- Fiction.
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Bards and bardism -- Fiction.
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Saxons -- Fiction.
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Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
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Trolls -- Fiction.
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Mythology, Norse -- Juvenile fiction.
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Druids and druidism -- Juvenile fiction.
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Vikings -- Juvenile fiction.
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Bards and bardism -- Juvenile fiction.
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Saxons -- Juvenile fiction.
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Siblings -- Juvenile fiction.
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Trolls -- Juvenile fiction.
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| ISBN |
0689867441 |
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