The ice-shirt
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- ISBN: 9780140131963
- ISBN: 0140131965
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415 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: New York, NY : Viking, 1990.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographic references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Ice-text: the Book of Flatey (1382) -- The Ice-shirt -- I The changers -- II Black hands -- III Vinland -- IV Freydis Eiriksdottir -- In the ice (1532-1931) -- Glossaries, chronology, sources. |
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Subject: | Norsemen -- Fiction Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction America -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction Greenland -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Summary:
The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland--and from there to the place they call "Vinland the Good." The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature. As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of "speculative history," a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new and utterly original vision of our continent and its past.