The Way of Edan (The Edan Trilogy, #1)

by Philip Chase

Grimrik, as Dayraven knew from a map in one of Urd’s books, lay some hundred leagues as the crow flies north and east of where they were now. The peoples of Eormenlond feared and respected the Thjoths, the tall and fierce folk of Grimrik. Only their love of fighting, stories told, surpassed their lust for seafaring. The Thjoths spoke a language different from the Northern Tongue, yet somehow like it, making the words harsh and outlandish. Urd once told Dayraven the Thjoths came hundreds of years before from the Wildlands far off in the east and were kin of the tribes of savage Ilarchae living there. He said to Gnorn, “Yes, we’ve heard of it. Many say its people, the Thjoths, are hard and warlike.”