The book started to pull me in to a very intriguing story of the lives of three women, Thorjeld who believes and studies the old Norse ways, Katla a Christian who does not follow Christ but has memories from her childhood, and the last Bibrau who is following the dark demon ways. Unfortunately the narrative is dry and you quickly lose interest in the people in the story. I got to a point where I just wanted to get to the end, which was such a disappointment. If everyone was as sad as the main characters of this novel, I would think that the Norse civilization would have just killed themselves from sheer depression!