The Flight of Anja (the Vinland Viking Saga, Book 2)

Greenland, 1012 AD. Anja Freydisdottir, daughter of the strong-willed Freydis Eiriksdottir, has always heard whispers of her mother's adventures in Vinland. Secretly resenting her mother and praising her adoptive father, Thorvard, Anja is unaware of his conniving ways. At the age of fifteen, she is about to find out how deceitful he is when he sells her for a high dowry as part of an agreement to grant her mother freedom. Trapped by the expectations of 11th-century society, all Anja longs for is to spread her wings and follow the path to Vinland. Liberation comes from an unexpected source when she is helped to flee across the Atlantic on a Viking longboat bound for Vinland shores. Haunted by the ominous shadows of a family history she does not know, Anja must defy all gender norms of that era and seek a perilous path into an unfamiliar wilderness to find her answers, which will test her strength and survival skills. The book explores themes of female empowerment, complex mother-daughter relationships, and finding oneself.

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