"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Oath sworn men, golden Valkyries, and a grinding siege all have roles to play in deciding the fate of a kingdom. Norseman’s Oath is a magnificent tale, immersing the reader in a world of thrilling battle, vivid characters, Viking wit, and grand adventure. And just when Halldorr begins to curse it all, a dirty sea king arrives on the scene and inspires him and a city to greatness. Ireland’s High King Sechnaill gambles for power. The half-brother princes, Iron Knee and Silkbeard, each have something to prove. : Norseman's Oath (The Norseman Chronicles) (9781508492689) by Born, Jason and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Everyone, Norse and Irish alike, desires to have a hand in running their own kingdom and the crumbling House of Kvaran. The truth hidden beneath the politics of Ireland is more sinister. The timber walls of King Kvaran’s prosperous city appear promising at first.
They remain banished from the icy fjords of home and so must serve wherever a sword is needed. The year is 989 A.D., two years after Halldorr and his fellow Greenlanders limped away from the massacre at Dunadd. Halldorr finds himself in the renowned Norse city of Dyflin, defending a king long past his prime. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Jason Born’s ill-fated hero, Halldorr, returns in this fifth stunning installment of The Norseman Chronicles. It must be a pronouncement of an ideal or ethic to uphold and compel or prohibit specific behavior to that end. He fights his way to wealth and in an epic battle, defending his king against overwhelming odds, he finds that it was not destiny, but betrayal that sent him into banishment thirteen years earlier. However, destiny strikes, forcing him to flee from Greenland to Ireland to England to Norway without her. Halldorr believes his life is his to command when Freydis, the fierce, fire-haired enchantress, at last desires to be his wife.
Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Because of a blood-oath made years before the murder of his father, Halldorr was adopted by an exile, Greenland’s discoverer, Erik the Red. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Norsemans Oath (The Norseman Chronicles) at. He became bodyguard to a king, brutally fighting in monumental battles - Maldon and Swoldr - to be handed down for centuries in skaldic verse.
Instead, he found himself exiled, resigned to a life of raiding, killing for plunder and survival. The Norseman is the first volume of the vividly-detailed historical chronicles of Halldorr, an orphan whose entire desire was to lay beside both a warm hearth and a plump wife, but fate had another thread to spin.
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