Eric Brighteyes

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Eric Thorgrimursson and Gudruda the Fair are bound by love, but family opposition, rival desire and the sorcerous schemes of Swanhild draw them into feud and exile. Eric’s strength wins fame in combat, yet each attempt to master his fate deepens the tragedy surrounding the households of his Icelandic district.

Haggard shapes the novel in deliberate imitation of an Icelandic family saga. Law assemblies, blood-feud, oath-taking, sea travel and the hard economics of farm life place its romance within the social world of tenth-century Iceland, while prophecy and supernatural suggestion preserve the sagas’ fatalistic atmosphere.