Book summaryBerserkers kidnap 11-year-old Jack and his sister Lucy from their small island in A.D. 793, and they're enslaved by Viking chieftain Olaf One-Brow. A harrowing ocean voyage takes them to Ivar the Boneless, a fierce king dressed in a cape stitched together from the beards of men he's killed, and Queen Frith, Ivar's shape-shifting half-troll wife. Frith's beauty is destroyed when Jack sings to her: "Her features rippled and twisted like the beasts carved on the walls." Frith threatens to kill Lucy if Jack doesn't restore her appearance, so he must seek out a magic well in the trolls' stronghold. He grapples desperately with gigantic spiders, a troll-bear, and dragons before finally returning home with a fire-wizard's staff. Author Nancy Farmer weaves Saxon and Nordic historical and cultural details into this imaginative seafaring adventure. A Kirkus Editor's Choice for 2004. |
THE SEA OF TROLLSby Farmer, Nancy2nd Printing
Book desription: NY: Atheneum, 2004 Apprenticed to a Druid bard, siblings Jack and Lucy are captured by Vikings and taken to their King and his half-troll Queen for whom Jack must undertake a quest to the home of the trolls. Nice copy; the author IS A 3X-NEWBERY AWARD WINNER as well as other awards. OUT OF PRINT IN HARDCOVER.. 2nd Printing. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/About Fine Dj. Illus. by Tim O'Brien, Dj. 8vo.
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