A beautifully rendered tale. I am sure there are a few other storytellers as good as Marillier but right now, I can't recall any. There is great imagination in her fictional world. Also, intelligence and discipline, integrity and truth. And, patience too.
I loved 'Wolfskin'. It started a little slowly but gathered momentum and strength with every line and by the time I reached the end, I was entirely and wonderfully lost.
Initially, I was a little vexed with Eyvind. Like Somerled, I thought him too slow. But then I realized how wise he is, how sure, and how good. Nessa is lovely. Her mission is appropriately terrifying and wondrous. The idea of a harp made with bones to reveal the truth is absolutely thrilling!
And Somerled is such an arresting antagonist! He is serpent-tongued and shrewd and fiercely ambitious. He seems psychopathic too but it is his perverseness and complexity that make him so interesting. Somerled is so destructive and his love is like hatred but at the end, he does arouse a kind of regret, if not compassion.