'Einar owns me' So begins THE THRALL'S TALE, the story of Katla, a slave and daughter of an Irish Christian captive of the Viking raids, as she is loaded on a ship with her masters other belongings to voyage from Iceland into the unknown, a strange new world called Greenland. The year is AD 985. Hailed as a cross between Jean Auel and Anne Rice for its seamless combination of historical authenticity and supernatural doings, this brilliant, sprawling historical novel is nevertheless totally original in ever other way. Inspired by the Norse sagas and set in the era of the Vikings, THE THRALLS TALE unravels the dark and compelling story of three extraordinary women whose lives are interwined as their pagan past collides with the first stirrings of a Christian future.