Naaja grows up with her father in an Inuit community in fifteenth-century Greenland. Mutual support is the cornerstone of Inuit society but father and daughter are at odds with their world,
initially due to the father’s idiosyncrasy but later because of what happens in the solitude of a deserted fjord one winter when Naaja and her father forsake their village.

A powerful, gripping story of an alien world, based on exhaustive research into the customs and culture of the old Inuit society.

• Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize 2005

“Vilborg Davidsdottir has put plenty of effort into her historical and geographical research, which makes The Raven a very tangible and thought-provoking story, a moderate blend of tension and fantasy.”
Hjalti Snaer Aegisson, Vidsja/Icelandic State Radio