It’s a fight in which victory or defeat will mean the difference between riches or death. The plan, however, soon turns into a nightmare of massacre and betrayal, and Thorgrim and his band must fight both the skilled commander of the local forces as well as enemies in their own camp. But just as the men are turning on one another, a local Irish lord arrives with a proposal, a plan for Irish and Norse to join together in a raid using Ireland’s rivers to float their longships far inland. Despite having accomplished much during the months of cold and rain, the patience of the men has worn thin and anger and frustration threaten to tear the ships’ crews apart. Spring has come to Ireland, where Thorgrim Night Wolf, new-made Lord of Vík-ló, and the three hundred Viking warriors under his command have suffered through a brutal winter. Glendalough Fair: A Novel of Viking Age Ireland 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. 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. Having recovered from the wounds of battle and having won for himself a fortune, a crew, and a longship, he is ready to return to his farm in Vik and go a’viking no more.īut the gods have other plans, and Thorgrim and his men wash up in the small Viking longphort of Vík-ló.

In this riveting follow-up to Fin Gall and Dubh-linn, Thorgrim Night Wolf makes ready to leave the Viking town of Dubh-linn for the long journey back to his home in Norway. The Lord of Vik-lo: A Novel of Viking Age Ireland They have become a part of the Irish kings’ ongoing struggle for power, and far from securing a means to return home, Thorgrim and his men are plunged into a battle for the throne of Tara, a battle that will test their strength and loyalty as none has before But the Northmen, he finds, are no longer simply invaders on foreign soil. Eager to return to his native Norway, Thorgrim agrees to participate in one last raid under the command of a man he does not trust. In the fight of their lives, with both Irish and Dane eager to see them dead.Ī Novel of Viking Age Ireland (The Norsemen Saga Book 2Ĭoming in the wake of Fin Gall, Dubh-linn, continues the story of Thorgrim Night Wolf and his band of Viking warriors as they plunder the Irish coast. With enemies at every hand, and loyalties as fickle as the weather, Thorgrim must lead his men, the white invaders, the Fin Gall, Soon the Norsemen are plunged into the violence and intrigue of Medieval Ireland, where local kings fight with each other and with the invaders from the north for rule of the island nation.

The Vikings eagerly snatch the prize, unaware of its significance to the people of Ireland and the power granted to the king who wears it. En route to the Viking longphort there, known as Dubh-Linn, Thorgrim Night Wolf and Ornolf the Restless stumble across an Irish ship that carries aboard it a single item - a crown. Such was the case in the southern lands of Ireland. They came at first to plunder, and then to settle, an encroachment fiercely resisted where ever they went. Few could resist the power of their violent onslaught. For centuries, the Vikings have swept out of the Norse countries and fallen on England, Ireland, whatever lands they could reach aboard their longships.

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