![]() Readers, who know her every thought and wild feeling, will marvel at how she maintains that passionate muteness even as Hoskuld carries her, pregnant, to Iceland, through violence and storm. Her companions are sold, but fear of her unbroken silence keeps her until an Icelandic chieftain pays extravagantly. She learns from the other women-Irish, Norse, Baltic-and helps to care for other, terrified children. When Brigid leaps overboard in a desperate move to escape, Mel-now called Aist, or stork, because she will not speak-focuses all her being on learning about the rough men who hold her. Melkorka is 15 and her sister Brigid eight when they are swept from their royal Irish parents and taken by a slave ship. Napoli takes the bare bones of a legend-Icelandic, tenth century this time-and clothes it in fire, flesh and blood. ![]()
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