In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani).įinnmark, Norway, 1617.
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