Griuns: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village - A folk tale

"Imagination will often carry us to world that nver were, but without it we go nowhere." - Karl Sagan

Without archives for the Swiss Chablais region dating from the 11th century, this tale imagines, with some historical deduction, who the first permanent settlers were in an alpine village overlooking the Rhone Valley at the end of the 9th century.

The novel follows the adventures of a young couple, a serf girl, and a freed man, both socially incompatible, who flee to the mountain in the winte...