Deep frozen midwinter in a Viking warlord's longhouse. From the snow
emerges a white-haired saga-teller, Snorri, who offers to entertain the
drunken warband. Sven Ravenfeeder agrees - but drops a noose around
Snorri's neck and tells him: "If we like your story, you will live..."
So begins the Blood-Eagle Saga - a tale of greed and betrayal, courage
and cowardice, that takes rival Viking longships across the Atlantic to
a new world of depravity. In the menacing forests and on the vast
bison-rich plains, Viking enemies Grim and his former right-hand man
Asgeir battle over honour and treasure. Along the way, they find
themselves in another equally proud and brutal warrior culture, that of
the native Americans. Throughout Asgeir is helped by his muse, Mary, a
shape-shifting former Irish slave who has every reason to hate Grim. At
the heart of the saga is one burning question that sends Sven and his
men into a frenzy - who will be the victim of the Vikings' favourite
torture - The Blood-Eagle?