The Sleeping Army

Francesca Simon

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781846682797
• eBook ISBN: 9781847654182

Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum, she is drawn to the Lewis Chessmen and Heimdall's Horn. Unable to resist, she blows the horn, waking three chess pieces from their enchantment; the slaves Roskva and Alfi, and Snot the Berserk. They are all summoned to Asgard, land of the Viking gods, and told they must go on a perilous journey to restore the gods to youth.If Freya refuses she will be turned into an ivory chess piece but, if she accepts her destiny and fails, the same terrible fate awaits her.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• contents
• Frontmatter
• 1 The British Museum
• 2 Bifrost
• 3 The Well of Urd
• 4 The River Irving
• 5 Jotunheim
• 6 Thrymheim
• 7 Hekla
• 8 Hel
• 9 Asgard
• 10 London
• Acknowledgements