Bergthora's Saga: A Heathen Revenge in a Christian Iceland

In 1019, after burying her husband in Greenland, Bergthora Bjornsdóttir returns to Iceland to exact her revenge for a violent act she suffered as a young girl. But in her hunger for vengeance she drives Engilborg, the young wife of Egill—a powerful and ruthless chieftain—into the arms of her uncle, Leif, shattering the lives of family and friends in the rural community along Hvamms Fjord. Kjartan, Engilborg’s father—who spent 15 years in Constantinople as a Varangian warrior, so he could bu...