Odin's Child
core novel 2013 The Raven Rings
Record
| Original title | Odinsbarn |
|---|---|
| First published | 2013 |
| Original language |  NO |
| First English translation | 2020 |
| Translator | Sian Mackie / Paul Russell Garrett |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (11,816 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 604 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781646900008 |
Synopsis
Odin's Child, the first book in Siri Pettersen's Norse-inspired Raven Rings trilogy, opens as fifteen-year-old Hirka discovers she is an "Odin's child," a tailless being from another world who has lived her whole life among people who fear and despise what she turns out to be. The revelation shatters her sense of who she is just as she realizes that others want her dead in order to keep her true nature a secret, placing her in immediate danger from her own community. Set in a world where magic is fading and the boundaries between realms are growing unstable, the story follows Hirka as she tries to understand what she actually is and why her existence poses such a threat, against a backdrop of deepening xenophobia and blind faith among the people who raised her.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Raven Rings
- Series: The Raven Rings core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Siri Pettersen
Awards (verified)
- Fabelprisen (Best Norwegian Fantasy/SF Novel), 2014: won; Awarded to Odinsbarn (Odin's Child).
Notes
- On the translation: English translation published by Arctis Books (US).
- From the series record (The Raven Rings): Norwegian young-adult/crossover fantasy trilogy, originally published as Odinsbarn (2013), Rata (2014), and Evna (2015); translated into English as Odin's Child, The Rot, and The Might (Arctis Books, US, 2020-2021).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Raven Rings: position 1 of 3: next The Rot (2014)
Sources
← The Raven Rings dossier · All universes
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