{"product_id":"the-long-forfeit-reinhold-nilson-9798257467400","title":"The Long Forfeit: Grettir the Strong, Book 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Long Forfeit\u003c\/b\u003e is a story of exile, endurance, and the brutal arithmetic of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeclared an outlaw and cut loose from the protections of law, Grettir Ásmundarson lives by wit, strength, and the stubborn refusal to yield. He sleeps under turf, in caves, and on borrowed ground. He is feared, fed, cursed, and hunted in turn. While the dark presses closer and old enemies circle, Grettir learns what it means to live beyond the edge of ordinary men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he takes refuge on Drangey, a hard island of ladders, cliffs, wind, and hunger. There, with his loyal younger brother Illugi beside him and his mother Ásdís fighting for him from afar with bargains, grain, and sheer resolve, Grettir carves out something perilously close to a life. But no refuge stays hidden for long. Shares in the island change hands. Rivals close in. Sorcery reaches across the sea. And a wound that will not heal begins to turn strength into reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the law counts the winters of his exile with cold precision, Grettir faces the one enemy no blade can master: time. On Drangey, every rope, every ladder, every ember, and every oath becomes a test of what can still be kept when nearly everything has already been taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dark, character-driven retelling of one of Iceland's greatest outlaw sagas, \u003cb\u003eThe Long Forfeit\u003c\/b\u003e is a novel of loyalty, hardship, and the long cost of being a man the world refuses to forgive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReinhold Nilson is a novelist drawn to stories of flawed men, public judgment, and the thin line between endurance and ruin. In his retelling of \u003cb\u003eGrettir's Saga\u003c\/b\u003e, he brings new depth to an old legend, giving fresh weight to its stark landscapes, uneasy loyalties, and hard-won acts of defiance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reinhold Nilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257467400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d","brand":"Reinhold Nilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665434349823,"sku":"9798257467400","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-long-forfeit-reinhold-nilson-9798257467400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}