![]() In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. ![]() He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. ![]() Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. ![]() After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.įinnmark, Norway, 1617. ![]()
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