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Historical person
910–980
Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, was a tenth-century Norwegian royal woman and the wife of Erik Bloodaxe. Sagas portray her as politically formidable and sometimes as a sorceress, but the surviving evidence is late and shaped by hostile literary traditions; she supported the claims of her sons in Norway and the British Isles.
Cecelia Holland’s The Soul Thief (the Life and Times of Corban Loosestrife) places Gunnhild, Mother of Kings within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and court politics and dynastic power. Cecelia Holland’s The Witches’ Kitchen (the Life and Times of Corban Loosestrife) places Gunnhild, Mother of Kings within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.
Series
The six-volume Corban Loosestrife saga begins in tenth-century Ireland when a Viking raid destroys Corban’s family and carries away his twin sister, Mav. His pursuit takes him through Dublin, Jórvík and Denmark before the family attempts a new life across the Atlantic. The later volumes shift much of…
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