![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Fic: The Ylfing Bride (original Viking Age fic)
Creator: ceceril
Title: The Ylfing Bride
Rating: M
Setting: Viking Age (9th century) Norway.
Genre: Het romance. Viking Gothic.
Word Count: 80k-ish. The work is posted as a WIP as I edit it (I'm aiming at posting once a week).
Characters/Pairings: Original female character/original male character.
Notes: Original Fiction, Viking Age, 9th century, Romance, Gothic, Horror, Dark Fairy Tale Elements, Beauty and the Beast Elements, One Thousand and One Nights Elements, Marriage of Convenience, Ethnic Differences, Hurt/comfort, Toxic Masculinity, Forced Proximity
Warnings: Potentially triggering/disturbing Gothic Romance tropes, horror, allusions to violence/offscreen violence (including sexual violence), post-traumatic stress, slavery, xenophobia, period-appropriate misogynist/homophobic/xenophobic slurs, please refer to the complete list of spoilery warnings for more details.
Summary: It's the middle of the ninth century. A Viking lord has been enchanted and it is said that only a bride can break the curse. Once eight of them have died trying, no more willing girls can be found. Enter a foreign slave with nothing to lose and everything to win.
Link: The Ylfing Bride
Title: The Ylfing Bride
Rating: M
Setting: Viking Age (9th century) Norway.
Genre: Het romance. Viking Gothic.
Word Count: 80k-ish. The work is posted as a WIP as I edit it (I'm aiming at posting once a week).
Characters/Pairings: Original female character/original male character.
Notes: Original Fiction, Viking Age, 9th century, Romance, Gothic, Horror, Dark Fairy Tale Elements, Beauty and the Beast Elements, One Thousand and One Nights Elements, Marriage of Convenience, Ethnic Differences, Hurt/comfort, Toxic Masculinity, Forced Proximity
Warnings: Potentially triggering/disturbing Gothic Romance tropes, horror, allusions to violence/offscreen violence (including sexual violence), post-traumatic stress, slavery, xenophobia, period-appropriate misogynist/homophobic/xenophobic slurs, please refer to the complete list of spoilery warnings for more details.
Summary: It's the middle of the ninth century. A Viking lord has been enchanted and it is said that only a bride can break the curse. Once eight of them have died trying, no more willing girls can be found. Enter a foreign slave with nothing to lose and everything to win.
Link: The Ylfing Bride