With skilled hand, Frid Ingulstad, takes us nearly a thousand years back in time. Where the sources are silent, the imagination is called on to help - with the proviso that events are plausible. Much has changed since the king's daughters lived, loved and suffered - both laws and views on human dignity and on women's life. But people remain the same, ruled by passions and urges, hatred and love.

Kristina Magnusdatter leaves for Iceland, because she wished to discover her grandmother's greatest secret. There, she falls into Reidar, local bagler leader's arms, and falls head over heels in love with him. But should she trust that handsome man? Bloody fights between baglers and birkenbeiners, king Sverre's supporters, take place in Norway. Reidar is Kristina'S, and her whole family's enemy. Perhaps he's using her as a pawn in his game for power?

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