As a child, he was captured by the Vikings and was taken from Slavic forests to Swedish fords. He grew up among the Varangians, rising from a disenfranchised slave to a free warrior in the squad of Jarl. He became famous not only for fighting skills, but also for the gift of the Cald singer, whom the Normans were revered as inspired by the gods.
But Veles’s spell, once imposed on him, will not allow the Slavic young man to serve the enemy. Having killed Brother Yarl in the duel, Skald is forced to escape from reprisal to the island of free Vikings, not subject to any king. Will he be able to undergo a deadly test and join a military brotherhood? Will Velesvo protect the spell from revenge of the Norman gods? Will the memory of the lost homeland wash the blood and rage of battles?
Read the pagan action movie about the bloody era of the Vikings and their campaigns in Rus’, about the “beautiful and fierce world” of our warlike ancestors, in which Slavic blood mixed with Norman, and Slavic resistance with Varangian valor, creating an indestructible alloy.
Author
Bakhroshin Nikolai Alexandrovich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
The initial Rus’
Genre
Modern domestic prose
16+
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