The Storyteller and Other Tales by K.V. Johansen Paperback Book 9780973950588

A collection for adults and older teens The Storyteller and Other Tales will take you on a journey through exotic worlds and times Demon bears take human shape and devils walk in the north of a world where every hill hosts a god and every river and spring a goddess Ulfleif a warriorprincess who would rather carry a lyre than a sword is drawn into an unfinished tale by the storyteller Moth and old lays of vengeance and betrayal wake into bloody new life around her A slave in BronzeAge Korthan sees his lovers suffer and die for the crime of worshipping outlawed gods and in the midst of horror at their sin finds his own faith shaken and takes his own first steps on the road to rebellion In a tale built on the familiar legends of our world Merlins daughter relates the story of the fall of Arthurs Britain as you have never heard it a tale of adultery and treachery old and wellknown yet fresh and startling in Nimianes telling The unnamed common men of England who faced a later generation of searaiders are given voice once more in the historical tale of the Battle of Maldon when English fought Vikings at the Blackwater and lost In all these tales the common thread is otherness other...