Lady Frida Cycle
The lady Frida cycle is a series of books named after the author Lady Frida auf Grannafe and is a series of adventure stories in the same vein as Harald Harding and the Tales of Rikard Guardsman, however where those stories are aimed to younger men and boys is the Frida cycle aimed to younger girls. As most Scanderan literature is the book series very moralistic and educational in it's nature but as it is aimed towards women does it instead of teaching wilderness survival and infantry combat tactics as the aforementioned books does the Lady Frida cycle instead focus a lot on more womanly pastimes such as embroidery, sewing, seduction, mathematics, economics, cooking, and gardening. Another place where the series of books tend to differate itself from both Harald Harding and the Tales of Rikard Guardsman is that it does not follow a family or a single character, instead is a new character introduced in each book. Each tends to be from Blåaland same as Frida herself and tends to follow morally troubled women that are either delinquents, criminals, or deviants in one way shape or form that is transported back to the past where they learn about love, romance, and of course how to be a proper woman. Generally does the heroines settle down and live long and happy lives and the books claims to be a collection of those stories written down by the heroines themselves.
Being herself a native of Blaland has Frida auf Grannafe stated that she was always fascinated by the oversja Scanderan cultures and how they grew up so while her characters tends to be from either Sydvinland or Blaland and travel to Scandera has she also tended to write a few stories where Scanderans are brought back to either pre-scanderan Blaland, Vinland, or the other realms as a way to show "how oversja Scanderan cultures are a mixture of both the home continent but also the native cultures that were raised into Scanderan ranks" in her own words.
Stories
| Name | Published | Main character | Summary |
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| A blue rose in the snow | 1999 | Frida Grildedottir | The young and rough Frida Grildedottir is an embaresment to her family, always running around causing trouble in her home of blafastning, generally robbing people and running with a gang of Jungkarls. However to her shock does she one day wake up in a cold dark forest. Figuring out that she is now in long distant Scandera in times long since gone does she meet the local Lordling Birger Radhar when he is patrolling his lands in search for a werewolf that haunts his domains. Surviving an attack only thanks to the lardin and his men must she try to settle in her new enviroment but more importantly must she try to see if she can get Birger to fall for her before the next wolfmoon as he is otherwise forced to marry an old vile daughter of his liege lord. |
| A red flower in spring | 2001 | Cava Runtudottir | The young Cava Runtudottir is a delinquent of the roughest kind, she refuses to help out with the family farm and only focuses on herself as her ageing mother and war wounded brother keeps working their land to support themselves with their modest means. However Cava generally steal from her family to live it up with her friends in the big city and one day does she attempt to steal and sell the KVG that her brother brought into war and both their father fought with and their uncle died with it in his hands. This is the final straw and her brother gives her a beating and sends her away. She takes refuge under some trees and when she wakes up does she not realise where she is. She is picked up by a kind lardin by the name of Björne Starknafe on a way to a grand tornament by the king and the two travel the lands for a bit and she falls for him quickly. However when they arrive to the court is the young lardin arrested and accused of not bringing enough men to the latest campaign compared to what his estate is worth. However as Cava set out to clear his name by going over his estate revenue and income are darker plots at play as night by night do young women go missing at the tourney fields. |
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Characters
Frida Grildedottir
Frida is the main character of the first book and is described as a ruffian and scoundrel with skin of a dark redish hue with the silver hair and ice blue eyes of the mountain peoples. She is argumentative and arrogant, does not respect her elders of parents, she show no interests in the proper matches her family tries to set up for her but fail repeatedly to flirt with the jungkarls she hangs out with, to the degree that she is known originally as "No-shield Frida" due to the fact that none of them wants so set up his shield in her name as they harass bystander. However during her adventures does she grow as a person, learn humility, and the ancient art of embroidery and other good life lessons.
Cava Runtudottir
Cava is described as a descendent of the proud Ikkata people of the Western mountains in Sydvinland, she however is nothing of the sort and instead is arrogant, a liar, and tends to steal just to live a life of decadent luxury. She is described as having beautiful skin of a redish hue with a the standard straight long raven black hair of Sydvinlanders with a pair of dark blue eyes as are common amongst their kind. While she originally lacks much in the way of skills bar a surprising good knack for money is she generally unwilling to help people or even do anything for anyone but herself. However her story forces her to change this as she applies what she is best at to save the one she loves.
Books and movies
Every book has so far been released with a cinematic version following with the only exception being 2020 that is currently being filmed due to the little action in the series are they all very fatefully adopted showing very little to no difference between them.
