With the hand of a master wordsmith, Frid Ingulstad guides the reader nearly a thousand years into the past. Where the sources are silent, she calls on her imagination to fill the gaps, with ideas both realistic and plausible. Much has changed since the time when the daughters of kings lived, loved, and suffered - both in terms of the law, views on human dignity, and in the everyday lives of women everywhere. But, people remain the same, ruled by...