Voyage to the FarmRichard Loomis, 2005 - 176 pages The protagonist of Voyage to the Farm is Thorir Gunnarsson, a farmer of thirteenth-century Iceland, then losing its independence as a free commonwealth and becoming subject to Norway. Thorir's boyhood dream of following his ancestors to Vinland gives way to defense of his farm, Thorisstadir, as his uncle trains him for leadership in the strife-torn land. |
Contents
Ingibjorg | 9 |
Catkillers Revenge | 13 |
Vlad Bezant | 20 |
Sea Passage | 26 |
School Days | 34 |
Service at Waterford | 52 |
Free Again | 68 |
Teodoras Box | 73 |
Hallgerds Baby | 123 |
Lesser Outlawry for Bolli | 130 |
Music at Bjargfell | 134 |
Alfs Testimony | 138 |
The Baselard Daggers | 142 |
The Burials | 147 |
Svart | 150 |
Icelands Sky | 157 |
Icelands Shore | 75 |
Welcome at Laufholt | 78 |
Home to Thorisstadir | 94 |
Gudmund Olafssons News | 107 |
Helga | 112 |
The Althing | 116 |
Charges | 120 |
The Hut | 159 |
Thingeyrar Monastery | 164 |
The Bishop | 166 |
The Gifts | 171 |
Westman of the Ocean | 173 |
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