Shieldmaiden

By Ole Åsli

Deal Ends: Mon 3rd August

They called me a girl when I picked up a sword. They called me a fool when I stepped aboard Håkon Jarl's ship. They called me a liability when we sailed for Denmark.I stopped listening a long time ago.Raised by a shieldmaiden, trained in the sparring circle before most girls my age had held a blade, I've spent my whole life earning a place no one wanted to give me. Now I'm on the deck of a longship heading for Hedeby — and I'm finally where I belong.Or so I thought.Because Hedeby is nothing like the sagas. The city is rotten with foreign warriors and local knives, and the chaos of my first real battle is only part of what's trying to kill me. Someone in our own warband has turned against us. And betrayal from inside the shield wall is harder to survive than any blade from outside it.I won't back down. But I'm starting to understand that surviving this will cost more than I knew how to price.Perfect for fans of Giles Kristian, Bernard Cornwell, and Matthew Harffy.