"If the edge of a man´s soul needs some honing, then the honing will come, by Death or by Challenge." Thorbjörn the Thunder priest from Gautland has found refuge in a peaceful Baltic River Land village after a tumultous life as the sole survivor of a persecuted lineage that has carried the secrets of Thunder since the Age of the Great Stone Temples and as a Rus Viking in exile. He knows that he must teach his daughters how to survive and remain free in the case of a Viking attack. But little could prepare seventeen year old Zivah and seven year old Thordis for the onslaughts of the barbarous Rus Vikings, pirates and slavers eager to profit on the civilized lands´ endless demand for New slaves... Orphaned and raided, little Thordis embarks on a quest to save her older sister from rape and slavery by befriending some of the weirdest and most contrary men there ever were... The Hammer of Greatness is the first book in the historical epic fiction BLADE HONER about the life of the Oseberg priestess (783-834 AD) From the Author of "The Seed of Yggdrasill - Deciphering the Hidden Messages in Old Norse Myths"
Genre: FICTION / HistoricalThe book has received an average of 5 stars (top ranking) from all reader´s reviews on Amazon and has been selling quite well for a self-published work ever since it was published.
The Healer and her two year old daughter, Zivah, had no further family with whom to seek comfort. They would have been welcome in any hut, but the Healer had long since learned to stay aloof, and to never show fear. Her mother had told her, as her mother before her, and her mother before that, and this was a truth told from healing mother to healing daughter since time immemorial; that a Healer must keep her fears to herself before her people, just like a mother must before her children. For if the mother is frightened, the children lose all hope. And so it would be if a Healer showed her fear before the people who depended upon her skills. It was the third night that she lay with her daughter in her arms, listening to the roaring thunder, all alert and ready to escape the house should it be the target of a misplaced thunderbolt. The Healer pulled her daughter close and hummed a song that made the little one fall asleep. She continued humming herself into sleep, and only a little later she dreamt.
She dreamt of walking aimlessly through the forest, soaked by the rain, in pain, and so tired, so very tired, and yet kept awake by the perpetual thunder and strikes of lightning and the wetness of it all. There was a sense of bottomless despair and intense pain, and yet a determination to move forward nevertheless. The Healer was accustomed to sensing the feelings of other people and knew in her dream that she was looking through another person’s mind. Somebody – a man by the feel of him - was lost in the forests. The Healer forced herself not to wake from the realization. She needed to know more if she was to help this one. She strained her eyes and tried to see through the eyes of the stranger. Then she felt how the stranger almost fell back in shock as a huge, male bear suddenly stood before him. She gasped as she saw the bear rise on his hind paws, roaring, accompanied by a frenzy of thunder.
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