The Viking Heart

From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America

“I don’t want to live a life of servitude controlled by my husband.” Rosamund, forced into a political marriage by her father, faked her own kidnapping in order to escape. The man sent after her—a golden-haired, blue-eyed giant named Agravar, a fearsome Viking known for his unparalleled strength and cruelty—takes her back to the castle where he lives. Always looking for another chance to escape, Rosamund unexpectedly finds herself drawn in by his bright smile, his big, warm arms and his lonely soul. Could she be falling for her captor?

She loved the old stories of Vikings and their adventures. What if she could be strong and brave like that? A contemporary novel set in the American midwest and west with cowboys, family heritage, and sweet romance. Anna Miller's small Midwestern town upbringing led to a safe, uneventful life. Until everything changed. While packing up her parent's home after their deaths, she discovers a shocking family secret. Anna is determined to find answers and follows the clues to a small town in Wyoming. Sexy local rancher Logan Harris crosses her path and helps Anna as she follows the clues to her family's history. She embraces a growing love for Logan and a sense of belonging in the small Wyoming town. As she unravels the secret of her father's heritage, the present and past collide with lies and deceit Anna must find the strength to fight - just like the Vikings she so admired. Which path leads to her own love and family - Logan's love or her true family heritage? * 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Gold Winner - Romance Category * 2018-2019 Reader Views Literary Finalist - Romance Category * 2018 American Fiction Award Finalist - Chick Lit/Women's Lit Category

This novel of the Canadian West tells of the emigration of Icelanders to Northern Manitoba. There they manage to become a part of their new country without losing their identity.

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The present volume is concerned with that period in the history of the Scandinavian peoples when they were growing, but had not yet fully grown, into nationalities, and when, therefore, their true national history had not begun. Every historic people has passed through this early formative period, its age of Sturm und Drang; and it may be said that every nationality which is worthy of the name has looked back upon that age with a peculiar affection and with a sort of reverence. It has, in consequence, overlaid the faint traditions of it with a garment of mythology, out of which it is in most cases possible only here and there to separate a shred of historical truth. The result is that the very phase in the development of the people about which we most long to know, is the one about which we are condemned to the completest ignorance. The Viking Age of the Northern Folk differs from the corresponding epochs in the history of other nations in this - that it is illuminated by a faint ray of real history lent from the pages of contemporary but alien chroniclers, the chroniclers, I mean, of Christian Europe. Were it not for this faint gleam, the earliest age of the Vikings would have remained for us as a mere tradition, something known to have been, but not presentable in any realizable form; much, in fact, what the Dorian Migration is in the history of Greece. As it is, by the aid of the contemporary records I have spoken of, we can present the northern migration in a clearer guise.