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Interesting note: I actually kow that "shadow" is "skuggi" in Icelandic. Some more Google-Translate-fu explainded that "shadow" is "skugga" in Swedish and "skygge" in Norsk. I'm learning new things everyday...

End of Prologue. So Thorrald basically came home carrying a tailless female infant. Being tailless is considered 'malformed/bad luck/monstrous in the world of Ym. To explain her taillessness to other people, he made a wound near her tailbone and cooked up a story that her tail was taken by a wolf.

He was also worried about something called "the Shadows."

Exhibit A: "Thorrald managed to get through the door, but he could not close it behind him. The snow kept the pressure on against the door frame faster than he could kick it away. He pressed the bundle to his chest and threw himself against the door as (like) an ox."