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Frey and His Wife

by Maurice Hewlett

Level C1 · AdvancedHistorical20 chapters
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CEFR level
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Length
20 chapters
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About this book

In a rugged northern world of shifting loyalties and fierce honor, Ogmund Ravensson, a proud thrall-born trader, sets sail seeking fortune and fame, defying tradition and courting danger on treacherous seas. Will ambition bring glory or ruin?

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Contents

20 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CHAPTER II HOW OGMUND DINT DID NOTHING, AND PRESENTLY SAILED HOME TO THWARTWATER; AND…
03CHAPTER III OF KING OLAF TRYGVASSON; AND OF SIGURD HELMING AND GUNNAR, HIS BROTHER
04CHAPTER IV OGMUND DINT COMES AGAIN TO NORWAY, AND MEETS GUNNAR ON THE HARD OF DRONTHEIM
05CHAPTER V OGMUND DINT SATISFIES HIMSELF, AND SAILS HOME
06CHAPTER VI THE HUE-AND-CRY FOR HALWARD NECK
07CHAPTER VII GUNNAR CROSSES THE MOUNTAINS
08CHAPTER VIII GUNNAR IN THE FOREST HEARS TELL OF FREY AND HIS WONDERS
09CHAPTER IX GUNNAR MEETS WITH FREY. CONCERNING FREY'S WIFE
10CHAPTER X TALK BETWEEN GUNNAR AND SIGRID
11CHAPTER XI GUNNAR TURNS FREY ABOUT AGAINST FREY'S WILL
12CHAPTER XII THE WINTER FEASTS

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