Eleventh-century Iceland. One night in the darkness of winter, two
friends set out on an adventure but end up killing a man. Kjaran, a
travelling poet who trades songs for food and shelter, and Gunnar, a
feared warrior, must make a choice: conceal the deed or confess to the
crime and pay the blood price to the family. But their decision leads to
a brutal feud: one man is outlawed, free to be killed by anyone without
consequence, the other remorselessly hunted by the dead man's kin.
Set in a world of ice and snow, it is an epic story of exile and
revenge, of duels and betrayals and two friends struggling to survive in
a desolate landscape, where honour is the only code that men abide by.