The Weaponless Watch
Mario Cordina
Set in the idyllic Norwegian Swanfjord, fringed by forests and the gigantic Huldrefolk Mountains above, this is old Elli’s gripping account of her guests and the events that will change their lives forever. Harlokken is green eyed and dark, Svanehvit is blue-eyed and blonde. Olaf another visitor to Swanfjord finds it hard to choose between the two. Elli, as a weaponless watcher and seeker of the runes of life together with the guests she comes to love as her own children, finds herself wrapped up in a tale where the constant Norse battles of old come to life. A battle for the survival of man against the odds and elements of this vast and tough Norse country steeped in the tales of the skards, their beliefs and their word strifes.
The Weaponless Watch offers a new vision on man’s position in the cosmos, his creator and the genesis of the world he lives in. Who sees the future as far as Elli? A future based on the spoken word of yore can sometimes be closer to the truth than modern day science.
A mystery surrounds the characters and their reasons for coming to stay at Swanfjord. At the end there are no real heroes and no real villains in this story. Life in the tales of the skards is merciless and ruthless and life at Swanfjord is no different.
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