Some religious church going ladies arent happy with these 'magical' practices nor with women who are more. Maren,a young lady who has adapted well to her changed role, lives with her mom & sister in law who belongs to the native community 'Sami', known to 'speak to the wind' & use 'runes' as charms. The island's women are left to fend for themselves and take up all chores traditionally done by men, including fishing. It is 1617 and a sudden storm in Vardo swallows all the adult males, who were out fishing when the storm struck. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty and terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of Vardø to heel. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant.Įighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm.
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