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Gunhild Haugnes
ALLi Author Member
Location: Europe
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Womens Fiction, Historical Fiction, History
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training
Gunhild is a native Norwegian who takes her name from two valkyries, Gun and Hild, goddesses of war in Norse mythology. She fights with all her might for what she believes in, but she feels greater empathy with the goddess Saga – a saga-writer or female Bard.
Gunhild has worked in journalism and as a disseminator of research for many years, but in 2013 she achieved her lifelong dream when she published her first novel in Norwegian, ‘Døtre av Norge’, (Daughters of Norway’), the story of generations of women from one family over a hundred years, told against the background of the battle for female emancipation and equality.
She is currently working on a series of independent novels collectively designated ‘Frøyas døtre’ (Daughters of Freya), after the greatest Norse goddess of all.
The first book in the series is the saga of a Viking woman, Frøydis Eiriksdatter, who lived in Greenland a thousand years ago - which soon will be launched in english. No also the three next in the series is launched: Thoron, Driva and Luzie.
Gunhild Haugnes' books
Freydis: An Epic Nordic Novel (Daughters of Freya Book 1)
Fiery passion. Perilous voyages. Powerful history.
Freydis Eiriksdatter, one of the most remarkable women of the Viking age, leads a harsh life amongst the towering cliffs and great glaciers of Greenland.
She has the warrior spirit of her father, Eirik the Red, and as Christianity conquers Greenland, she continues to worship the old Norse gods.
Like her brother, Leif Eiriksson, she’s cursed with an adventurer’s soul. Her biggest desire is to become a legendary explorer. Driven by ambition, curiosity - a restless hunger for more - she sets out on a hazardous voyage to Vinland.
But amidst the perils and brutality of nature, her biggest obstacle is rudimentary…
In the year 1080, an explorer can never be a woman.
Thoron: An Epic Nordic Novel (Daughters of Freya Book 2)
Born as a princess, destined to serve the Norse gods
Thoron grows up in an Irish village with her grandmother, a pagan - unaware that she is the daughter of the Norwegian King, Haakon Haakonsson.
At fourteen Thoron leaves the Emerald Isle, and sails to her royal family just as the bloody battle for the kingship enters its last dramatic phase.
The burden of her heathen inheritance weighs heavily upon her shoulders, and she finds herself forced to battle against everything her father stood for.
In the 13th century, Norway was enjoying the peak of its power and influence.
But everything was controlled by men!
Driva: An Epic Nordic Novel (Daughters of Freya Book 3)
A devastating plague. A Christian queen. A pagan life quest.
The year is 1349, and The Black Death is devouring Norway.
Up in the mountains, Driva is unaware of its destruction of everything she holds dear in the village. She doesn’t yet know that she’s the daughter of the goddess Freya. She doesn’t yet know that she'll be tasked with the quest of a lifetime.
Driva will serve the greatest queen of the North. But first she must abandon all she knows...
...and fight her way to the sorceress of Snøhetta.
Driva is the third stand-alone novel in the Daughters of Freya-series. The main characters in the series are bound by ties of blood, and they have all been tasked with life-altering quests by Freya, with the survival of the Earth at stake.
Luzie: An Epic Nordic Novel (Daughters of Freya Book 4)
A Nordic love story. A heathen Ring. A fall of a nation
The year is 1520, and young Luzie is playing with her new friend by the edge of the sea. She has no idea of the bloody drama that is about to break out in the neighbouring country, or of the momentous events which will have life-changing consequences for herself, her powerful mother, the Lady Inger of Austrått, and for all the Nordic countries.
Nor does she know that she herself is destined to play a leading role in the most dramatic love story in the history of the North.
Least of all, she knows about her own pagan origins, and the demanding mission that awaits her as the fourth daughter of Freya. A mission that will devour her life.
LUZIE is the fourth stand-alone novel in the Daughters of Freya-series. The main characters in the series are bound by ties of blood, and they have all been tasked with life-altering quests by Freya, with the survival of the Earth at stake.