Dødssynden
core novel 1982 The Legend of the Ice People
Record
| First published | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  NO |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.90 (2,924 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 255 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9788251679626 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Another chapter of the Ice People's story begins in 1625, as the Thirty Years' War rages in Europe and draws in many of the family's young men, with devastating consequences. Cecilie Meiden, Tengel's granddaughter, beautiful and talented, with a bright future ahead of her, still serves at King Christian IV's court in Denmark, caring for the king's children. But one night of passion has changed the course of her life: she is pregnant by a man who is, to make matters worse, a priest, and she must navigate the intrigue and betrayals of the Danish court without her condition being discovered. She longs for her good friend the Marquis Alexander Paladin, kind, wealthy and devastatingly handsome, but he faces a catastrophe of his own: rumour has it that he is guilty of an unforgivable sin, punishable by death. Meanwhile the evil inheritance of the Ice People lives on, and no one knows where it will strike next.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Legend of the Ice People
- Series: The Legend of the Ice People core; position 5 of 47 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Margit Sandemo
Notes
- From the series record (The Legend of the Ice People): The original 47-volume saga (1982-1989) following the cursed Ice People clan across generations of Scandinavian history, marked by inherited supernatural gifts, a medallion-bound curse, and (in its later volumes) an underground kingdom where time itself runs differently. Two later continuations exist (a further ~35 volumes across two more parts, published years afterward) and are not yet catalogued here pending closer genre review.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Legend of the Ice People: position 5 of 47: previous Lengsel (1982) · next Den onde arven (1982)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Legend of the Ice People
- Jentas Books: The Legend of the Ice People
- Reader database series: Sagaen om Isfolket
- https://bibliotek.dk/materiale/venskab_margit-sandemo/work-of:870970-basis:05855233
- Audioteka (Jentas English edition description)
- BookBeat (publisher description)
← The Legend of the Ice People dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.