Unraveled: The Nornavefur Trilogy

By Katrin Hólm · A fully illustrated fantasy epic set in a world made of yarn

Birta has always known her world is made of something soft — moss like garter stitch, waves like purl rows, fog like unspun wool. What she doesn't know, until the night her mother's boat doesn't come back, is that magic in this world costs a memory, and a cast-off stitch can never be picked up again.

To save what's left of her family, Birta must learn to knit with the last thread she has: the truth. Alongside a boy who talks too much and remembers everything, a dog who won't stay asleep, and a grandmother whose hands are never still, she sets out across a world where every mended thing wears its scar in the open — because in Nornavefur, mended is better than gone.

This edition collects all three books of the complete Nornavefur Trilogy in one volume, illustrated throughout with original full-color artwork in a hand-knitted visual style found nowhere else — 62 full-page illustrated scenes and hand-drawn border art on every page, all original, not stock decoration.

Perfect for readers who love cozy fantasy with real stakes, folklore-rooted worldbuilding, and stories that feel handmade.

From Arctic Story House, the studio behind the illustrated Icelandic folk tales Búkolla, Grettir og Glámur, and Álfarnir í steininum.

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About the author

Katrin Hólm writes the Icelandic-language folklore retellings for Arctic Story House and is the author of Unraveled: The Nornavefur Trilogy, the studio's flagship original story. Read more about the project.