Novels & Stories
The Doomsong Sword. To avoid his family chores, lazy Davor runs away to sea. The longship is stranded and Davor, who has been bullied, says he will get help. Instead, he runs away again, into even greater danger. Davor saves himself from a three-headed troll, but then falls in with the Traveller, Master Odo, whom he believes is taking him home. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Master Odo takes Davor to a wedding feast, where the fabled Doomsong sword comes into Davor’s hands but, frightened of its power, he drops it. Angry and disappointed, Master Odo abandons Davor to survive alone with only a white wolf for company – until eventually, Davor is led to the cave of the most terrifying dragon in the Cold North . . .
The Doomsong Voyage.-Book 2 in The Doomsong Saga Long ago in the Cold North, Finn, a young tale-maker, encounters the Wanderer, Master Odo in a Baltic island tavern. Master Odo tells Finn there will soon be a terrible climate catastrophe and tasks him with sailing to the Middle Sea to locate the absent Volsung clan leader, Goran Ice-heart. Ice-heart must return to the North to lead his people to a warmer land before an imminent volcanic eruption. Master Odo gives Finn the legendary Doomsong sword, which he must hand to Ice-heart as the rightful clan leader. Finn also receives a grave warning: he will meet obstacles and dangers on his voyage, and a powerful, fire-loving enemy will try to prevent his success. Finn’s voyage is hindered by a sell-sword named Beorn Wolfman, who leads Finn to Heorot of the Grendel legend. Finn’s life is in jeopardy, but he has help from Katranina, a strange girl with amber-green eyes. Their voyage continues to Hispania, where Finn is captured in the Barbalus emirate.
The Doomsong Legend.
- Book 3 in The Doomsong Saga. The sword named Doomsong
was pulled from the world of an ancient saga. Many people want it. Most
for evil purposes. But only the good may bear it in times of peril. And
danger is at now at every turn. Finn’s return voyage from the Middle Sea
to the Cold North coincides with the eruption of a volcano – as Master Odo
predicted. Finn helps to save folk on his island, but as they escape, heading
south, he is attacked and the cargo knarr Guillemot is blown off course.
The Doomsong sword comes into quiet Seren’s hands.
Back in her homeland, Seren learns she has inherited Celtic oak-knowledge
and becomes a Guardian of the Sword. Initially she tries to hide it, but
her own life is in jeopardy and her Wessex folk are in danger. Seren knows
she must protect the sword and take it to a place of safety, but everyone
she meets wants it and she cannot trust anyone. Not even her dearest friend
when he comes to find her.
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