<p> Having recovered from the wounds of battle and having won for himself a fortune a crew and a longship Thorgrim Night Wolf makes ready to leave the Viking town of Dubh-linn for the long journey back to his home in Norway. But the gods have other plans and Thorgrim and his men wash up in the small Viking longphort of Vík-ló. Thinking themselves among friends they soon learn that the opposite is true that Grimarr Giant the Lord of Vík-ló has reason to want Thorgrim and his son Harald dead. In a world where they cannot tell friend from foe a world of violence at sea and on land Thorgrim Harald Ornolf Starri and their band of Norsemen find themselves once again fighting not just for plunder but for their very survival. </p>