The Winter Drey
In The Feathered Cloak, Rolf watched his sister Freya take flight. Is it his turn now to do something extraordinary?
Rolf the Ranger isn't a typical nine-year-old boy. For one thing, he's a giant – ten feet tall and still growing. For another, he's so shy that he speaks only single words. And his sister, Freya, is gone – flown away on her newly grown wings. Rolf is lonely. He needs a friend.
Will it be the little squirrel Rat-A-Task, who speaks to him from the rafters of his bedroom and urges Rolf to set out on a mysterious journey? Or perhaps Rolf's friend will be the man they see in the woods; a man who carves stories into the turnks of trees and calls himself Egil the Poet. And then there are the sons and daughters of Erik Blood-Axe, a band of Viking warriors who want to restore the old ways even a s new religion, brought by a young Christian king, threatens to take over the land.
In The Winter Drey, all will meet in the vast and beautiful branches of the Tree of the World. It is where their destinies will become intertwined, and where a nine-year-old giant just might discover the courage to be who he really is.
