Hardcover, 479 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2009 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
The Islands of the Blessed
by Nancy Farmer
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Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland (present-day Orkney Islands).
Subjects
- Bards and bardism -- Fiction
- Druids and druidism -- Fiction
- Saxons -- Fiction
- Vikings -- Fiction
- Mythology, Norse -- Fiction
- Folklore -- Scotland -- Orkney -- Fiction
- Mermaids -- Fiction