A Viking Age skald whose sagas are prized across the North for being truer than any other storyteller dares to make them.
Yngvild has traveled the fjord-trade circuit for nineteen summers as a skald — a poet-historian whose composed verses preserve the deeds, deaths, and disputes of the jarls and chieftains who host her at their halls in exchange for a saga they hope will flatter them to future generations. She has built, unusually for someone in her trade, a reputation for refusing that particular bargain: Yngvild's sagas are prized precisely because she will not soften a jarl's cowardice into cunning or a slaughter into glory merely because he's paying for the verse, a policy that has cost her comfortable…
historical, drama, intellectual, original-character, philosophical
Lyrandal