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...