Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dark Sister
I first read of Freydis in a long poem on American history by Edgar Lee Masters, The New World. Her story is also touched upon in William Carlos Williams' In the American Grain and in Sherwood Anderson's A Story Teller's Story, but fifteen or more years ago when I first began to try to write this poem I had not read either the Williams or Anderson book. So it is the poet of Spoon River to whom I owe, as I am eager to acknowledge, my initial impulse. Although the Norse voyages to the Ameri can continent seem a perennial inspiration of new books - from juveniles to novels to archaeological studies - Freydis, so far as I am aware, has been left to darkness and to me; and this is curious, for her story, mad as it is, is yet deeply meaningful and symbolic. (it is curious too, by the way, that the three writers who have at least taken a fascinated glance at her story are those determined Americans, Masters, Williams, and Anderson.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
