Heksejakten
core novel 1982 The Legend of the Ice People
Record
| First published | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  NO |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.84 (4,193 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 256 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9788233409968 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Tengel and Silje are living quietly in the Valley of the Ice People, amid its mountains and meadows, with their three children, tentatively accepted by their isolated community. But they are not like the others: their lives are bound up with the legacy of an evil spirit, and their daughter Sol has a frighteningly dark inheritance. When old Hanna, an evil old witch, tells them of their fate, they do not believe her. Then a neighbour betrays them out of fear of exposure, and witchcraft accusations force the family out of the valley into a world where witches and sorcerers are hunted down. Silje reaches out to Dag's birth mother in the city, who learns her son is alive, and the family finds temporary refuge on a remote estate, while Sol grows into an independent young woman yearning for freedom.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Legend of the Ice People
- Series: The Legend of the Ice People core; position 2 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 2 of 47: previous Trollbundet (1982) · next Avgrunnen (1982)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Legend of the Ice People
- Jentas Books: The Legend of the Ice People
- Reader database series: Sagaen om Isfolket
- https://bogrummet.dk/boganmeldelser/sagaen-om-isfolket-2-heksejagten-af-margit-sandemo-2/
- Audioteka (Jentas English edition description)
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