Draugr
- ISBN-10
- 0613292286
- ISBN-13
- 9780613292283
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01-01
- Publisher
- Turtleback
- Author
- Arthur G. Slade
Description
While visiting their grandfather in Canada, three American children experience an event based on Icelandic mythology in which a man comes back from the dead to seek revenge.
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