"When foreign lords and chieftains, some with ill intentions, descend upon her home to celebrate her uncle King Beowulf’s 50-year reign, Fryda, with an unfathomable power awakening within her, must gather her courage to fight for her people and prove herself once and for all."--

"852 A.D. For centuries, the Vikings have swept out of the Norse countries and fallen on England, Ireland, whatever lands they could reach aboard their longships, and few could resist the power of their violent onslaught. They came at first to plunder, and then to settle, an encroachment fiercely resisted where ever they went. Such was the case in the southern lands of Ireland. En route to the Viking longphort there, known as Dubh-Linn, Thorgrim Night...

"Dagfrid's brother, Odalrik, has turned sixteen years old. For his birthday, he gets a sword and should be in training to be a great warrior, but all Dagfrid sees him doing is laying around. All the while, she not only has to do the cleaning and sewing, but has been given the "honor" of preparing the meal for the chief's banquet. Come to find out, Odalrik is bored and would love to learn how to cook and sew so he's not so bored all the time, but his...