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Viking Saga is a pulse-pounding literary historical thriller, set in 793 AD, when Norway was ruled by many small kingdoms and folk still worshipped the old gods. Halfdan the Black -- a young fighter and a beer-guzzling poet, with a Norse father and an African mother -- vows revenge for the killing of his king. Halfdan's fate leads him through historical events, such as the raid on England's Lindisfarne nunnery and the first Norse contacts with Christianity. This spare, cunningly ironic novel is set against a brutal backdrop of life in the "Dark Ages", featuring violent conflicts, a unique love-story, odd plot-twists, occasional humour, Norse-style poetry and more. Well-researched and fast-moving, Viking Saga follows Halfdan the Black as he battles, boozes and rhymes towards revenge, love, wisdom ... and becoming the first king of a unified Norway.