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The Voyage of Freydis
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1
History set her fate in stone....
Murderer. Mercenary. Temptress.
Trickster. Traitor. Thief.
But under a hammer that falls like thunder, stone will always shatter.
So with her voice she lights the forge.
The Voyage of Freydis sings the silenced tale of Freydis Eiriksdottir, the first and only woman to lead a Viking voyage across the Atlantic in this tempestuous retelling of an ancient Icelandic saga set at the dawn of the 11th century.
Content notice: spousal abuse.
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- Kimberley
- 2022-06-02
Filters - Historians and Our Own
The Voyage of Freydis provides the reader a vision of the Norse Viking colonization of North America told from the perspective of a female Norse Viking - Freydis who was wife to a powerful Viking. Goranson crafts a story so vivid, when I reflected on the story sometime after completing it, I had to correct my initial thought that I had watched a movie. A gifted writer takes the reader to other worlds, times or possibilities. The reader, from the comfort of their now, receives the gifts of new friends, enemies, adventures, adversary, knowledge and perspective. An exceptional writer is not afraid to invoke the spectrum of human emotions from the most primal level and to challenge the reader's comfort level though exploration of the facets of human nature we may prefer to turn away from. A challenge of our personal filters creates discomfort not unlike a scary movie - we easily survive and which I welcome like an amusement park ride lol. An awareness for the filters of historians, politicians, media and even family members is wisdom. To me - a good book is enjoyed but an exceptional book stirs my emotions across the spectrum and leaves me contemplating some aspect of myself and humanity. I pick a book because I think it will be a good book but when it challenges my comfort level, my view of the world past and present, gives me characters that stay with me and new experiences that I can feel belong to me - it becomes an exceptional book. In my opinion, The Voyage of Freydis is exceptional. I am anxiously waiting to get the next correspondence from my soul sister....
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- Kris
- 2023-01-21
Brazen warrior turned into a desperately co-dependent pacifist
For better or worse Freydis was a historic domineering woman, described as interested in autonomy, power, and wealth, famously known for various massacres including one against the First Nations peoples while 8 months pregnant.
This book is nothing like the few writings we have on her. She is portrayed as whiny, needy, and obsessed with not being told what to do - more akin to a toddler than an independent woman.
I was expecting this to be more like a reimagining of a typically portrayed as villainous character but instead the author took one of the few truly powerful women of history and continuously made her desperately codependent, constantly pleading, and forever fawning men in her life, and obsessing over being a good woman obsessed with pregnancy. There is more focus on her unborn child than Freydis herself… who though this sappy want to be romance was a good idea?
Truly not remotely what I expected based on the context and description.
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- Cynomoon
- 2022-12-19
Had potential
The heroine had experiences that provided hope, but she did not reflect female empowerment. If anything, she reflected self-sacrifice and a victim’s mentality. She was a survivor, but she did not break the cycle, as well-intentioned as the author may have been.
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