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Åsa Haraldsdottir was a Norse queen who ruled alone in the early 9th century. She is barely mentioned in Snorri Sturlason’s “Heimskringla,” where she is said to have been kidnapped and forced into marriage by King Gudrød of Vestfold, who murdered her father and brother.
She bears a son, who grew up to be Halfdan the Black, father of Harald Finehair, the first king to unify Norway.
Little is known of Åsa except that she turns the tables on Gudrød, having him killed and returning with her son to her father’s kingdom, where she apparently ruled alone until Halfdan was eighteen years old. No more is heard of her, but many believe that she is one of the two women occupants of the Oseberg Ship, one of the greatest burials of the Viking Age.
The Norse Queen (The Norsewomen Book 1)
by Johanna Wittenberg
Ninth-century Norway, the dawn of the Viking age--a land shattered into thirty warring kingdoms. A woman could seize power, if she was bold enough. Daughter of a Norse king, fifteen-year-old Åsa dreams of becoming a shield-maiden. When she spurns a powerful warlord, he rains hellfire on her family, slaughtering her father and brother and taking her captive.
To protect her people, Åsa must wed her father's killer.
To take vengeance, she must become his queen.
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