The Ice-shirt"The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature"--Publisher description. |
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The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes William T. Vollmann No preview available - 1993 |
The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes William T. Vollmann No preview available - 1993 |
Common terms and phrases
AMORTORTAK Baffin Island Bear-Kings Bear-Shirt became bench-boards birds Bjarni BLACK HANDS Bloody-Axe blue Blue-Shirt called Christian clouds cold cried dark dead dream Eirik the Red Elder Brother eyes face father fell fjord Flateyjarbók Freydis Freydis's gold grass green Greenland grey Gudrid Gunhild hair Halfdan Halfdan the Black Harald Fairhair Haukadale head Heimskringla Helgi and Finnbogi husband Ice-Shirt Iceland Ingjald Inuit Inuktitut Island Jötunheim Karlsefni killed King Olaf KLUSKAP knew land laughed Leif Leif's lived looked married Micmac mountains never night Norse Norway ODIN Queen river rocks round rushed Saga sailed seemed ship shirt shoulders Sigrid Sigrid the Haughty Skofte Skrælings smiled Snorri Snorri Sturlusson snow sometimes stone stood stream Svipdag Thjodhild Thorbjorn Thorgest Thorgunna Thorstein Thorvard thought thralls took trees trolls Vinland walked wife wind Wineland woman Yggdrasil Younger Brother