But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty evil.Īs Maren and Ursa are pushed together and are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.įinnmark, Norway, 1617.
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