![]() ![]() After Olaf the Tall was killed by a Scotsman, Odd’s father had to look after the ponies. The ponies were the most valuable and hardworking things on the ship. They would load the ponies up with all the gold and valuables and food and weapons that they could find, and the ponies would trudge back to the longship. He had jumped overboard to rescue one of the stocky little ponies that they took with them on their raids as pack animals. It was not unknown for people to get killed in sea raids, but his father wasn’t killed by a Scotsman, dying in glory in the heat of battle as a Viking should. His father had been killed during a sea raid two years before, when Odd was ten. But if there was one thing that he wasn’t, it was lucky. At least, the other villagers thought so. Odd meant the tip of a blade, and it was a lucky name. ![]() ![]() Odd and the Frost Giants Neil Gaiman Illustrated by Brett Helquist For Iselin and Linnea CHAPTER 1 ODD THERE WAS A BOY called Odd, and there was nothing strange or unusual about that, not in that time or place. ![]()
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