Viking Song

the long version

Rowena Marshall arrived in Norway feeling excited but apprehensive. This beautiful, snow-swept country would be her home if she were to marry Sigmund Thune, but at the last minute, he had been called away to America on business, leaving Rowena to meet his family alone. It was not a prospect she relished. And when at Bergen she was met by the icy and uncompromising stare of one member of that family - Sigmund's forbidding cousin Thor Neilsen - all too soon caused her to have misgivings. Was Sigmund really the right man for her? For, she realised, Thor was occupying more and more of her thoughts. Yet what was the use of falling in love with him? For quite apart from the fact that more than one attractive Norwegian girl would be happy to marry him, Thor was a man who had put love behind him forever....