Nancy Marie Brown is the author of highly praised books of non-fiction, including
Song of the Vikings and
Ivory Vikings. Her work has been reviewed in
The New Yorker,
The New York Times,
The Economist,
The Times Literary Supplement and many other publications. Brown has spent decades studying Icelandic literature and culture. She lives on a farm in Vermont where she keeps four Icelandic horses and an Icelandic sheepdog.
After several visits to study the medieval Icelandic sagas, Nancy Marie Brown returns to Iceland to search for the perfect horse, one she can bring back to her Pennsylvania farm and make her own. She arrives shaken by tragedy, uncertain of the language, lacking confidence in her...
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