Ballad of the Banished

Eighteen-year-old Yrsa serves the gods as a Valkyrie, guiding the souls of fallen warriors from Midgard to the golden halls of Valhalla. But when she falls in love with a warrior she's supposed to reap, she breaks the most important law. She lets him live.

When the Goddess of Death discovers Yrsa's defiance, she offers a cruel bargain: retrieve the scattered pieces of Freyja's lost armor before midsummer but be exiled from Valhalla, or lose the warrior to eternal torment in the underworld bu...