Sveneld. The Völva's Weapon

Four summers ago, Ulvar didn’t return from a trading trip and disappeared. His young wife Snaefrid is harassed by people Ulvar owes money to—and also by the dangerous owners of a mysterious sealed casket he left behind. Caught in trouble from every side, Snaefrid decides on an unheard-of act: to go across the sea, to the Gardens, to search for her husband. And to make this journey possible, she agrees to something she has been avoiding for a long time—accepting the wand of a völva from her aunt, the witch Khravnkhild, along with the duties that come with it, duties dangerous in themselves. Under her aunt’s name, she sets out, and her only protector doesn’t know that beneath the shaman’s mask of an experienced witch there is her young heir… (The novel is connected by the theme of the march to the Khazar Sea with other books of the “Sveneld” cycle, in which some characters participated.)