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The Long Forfeit: Grettir the Strong, Book 2
Paperback
Series: Grettir the Strong, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 530
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Long Forfeit is a story of exile, endurance, and the brutal arithmetic of survival.
Declared an outlaw and cut loose from the protections of law, Grettir Ásmundarson lives by wit, strength, and the stubborn refusal to yield. He sleeps under turf, in caves, and on borrowed ground. He is feared, fed, cursed, and hunted in turn. While the dark presses closer and old enemies circle, Grettir learns what it means to live beyond the edge of ordinary men.
Then he takes refuge on Drangey, a hard island of ladders, cliffs, wind, and hunger. There, with his loyal younger brother Illugi beside him and his mother Ásdís fighting for him from afar with bargains, grain, and sheer resolve, Grettir carves out something perilously close to a life. But no refuge stays hidden for long. Shares in the island change hands. Rivals close in. Sorcery reaches across the sea. And a wound that will not heal begins to turn strength into reckoning.
As the law counts the winters of his exile with cold precision, Grettir faces the one enemy no blade can master: time. On Drangey, every rope, every ladder, every ember, and every oath becomes a test of what can still be kept when nearly everything has already been taken.
A dark, character-driven retelling of one of Iceland's greatest outlaw sagas, The Long Forfeit is a novel of loyalty, hardship, and the long cost of being a man the world refuses to forgive.
About the AuthorReinhold Nilson is a novelist drawn to stories of flawed men, public judgment, and the thin line between endurance and ruin. In his retelling of Grettir's Saga, he brings new depth to an old legend, giving fresh weight to its stark landscapes, uneasy loyalties, and hard-won acts of defiance.
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