The Ice People Saga

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Does somebody read a Norwegian author, Margit Sandemo's The Ice People Saga? Btw, was it translated into English at all? I was looking for some information in the Internet but I couldn't find anything about it - the only thing found by me is people asking the same question

It's a series of 47 books (rather for women ) telling a story of one family's members fighting their immortal nefarious ancestor, Tengel the Evil who desires ruling the world. The story begins in 16th century and ends in 1960's.

Once in each generation a special child is born - a child who was touched by Tengel's curse, born with magical abilities used to hurt other people. Those children's most characteristic feature is yellow eyes (they are often also very ugly, with deformed faces and bodies). But not only "touched" children are born, sometimes women from the family give birth to the "chosen" babies who are on the side of good and have an important mission to do. The books concentrate mostly on the women from the family.

Have you read? Was the Ice People Saga published in your countries?

I heard about it on the radio some time ago, when they started publishing them in Danish. As far as I remember only the first 13 volumes had been published so far. It sounds interesting, but I don't think I've got the time to start reading such a large series right now...
Oh by the way Amazon doesn't carry them in English and if they don't, I highly doubt it's been translated yet!

The author is VERY highly regarded amongst anthropologists for portraying the way it may have been for life in the last great Ice Age. Apparently, she is an amazing researcher on Ice Age ethnography.

Those books are not long and there's not a difficult, sophisticated vocabulary used there so reading such a book doesn't last long

Each one is about one character from the saga - the touched ones, the chosen ones and normal members of the family who didn't have any supernatural abilities. There are even some people in the family who had a blood of black angels in their veins.

In my country the saga became immensely popular in 1990's. Even though a literature of this kind was criticised as silly books for shallow minded women, the saga is not only about love (however about one third of novels of the series is about young ladies finding their ideal man) but there's also a motive of magic, demons (Tula, the witch belonging to the touched ones was a lover of demons) and attempts to destroy evil Tengel, especially in several last novels.

Oh, I've just read something in Wikipedia:
"In early 2007, it was also revealed that her series "Isfolket" is to be published for the first time in english within the year". So also people speaking in English will be able to read the Saga

my mother has the collection in norwegian of course

cus we're norwegian :I

My mother has the entire collection of the saga. She enjoyed it. I tried reading it in my youth, but I was disappointed. I liked the supernatural part but I had had it after reading 13. Way too much mushy stuff for my taste.

Here in Norway this series has been called porn for house wives. I understand why.

I enjoy also May Grethe Lerum's 'Daughters of Life" and Pedersen's "Raija of the Snow Land" (this latter one to a much lesser extent because it focuses mostly on the romance motive and unlike it happens in "Daughters of Life" the whole series is devoted to just one woman not to the whole generations).

Today I reread the first volume of The Daughters of Life. Liv, the main character has sex with her beloved one who gets all turned on by the beautiful, feminine body of this beautiful, sexy young woman. This hot, sexy woman (and a young mom of her baby daughter after the numerous rapes on her performed by her own grandpa) is just having her twelfth birthday On the other hand, well, maybe her body was just very well developed for her age, everybody develops in their own temp although according to the data, even a hundred years ago (the action takes place in the 17th century) an average age for the first menstruation for a Scandinavian girl was almost 17

Irulan, if you like these books so much, you should be aware that Margit Sandemo has written two other series (Heksemesteren and Sagnet om Lysets Rike) that are similar to Sagaen om Isfolket. IDK if any of those are translated though.

I know what she wrote, I think all her novels are translated into Polish, Poland is one on those few non-Scandinavian countries where her works are very popular. Or at least were; in the 90's. I saw Sagaen om Isfolket for the first time on show in a newspaper kiosk in autumn 1995 but I remember I read the novels in 2000; I think it was the year when I started to read them.

I'm now rereading the "Legend of the Ice People" now - it's the title under which the series is known in the English speaking world because it finally got translated and published Is there anyone else out there on WP who would like to share with us their thoughts on the series?