Warriors, adventurers, and simply travelers from all over the world strive to reach the capital of a mighty empire—Constantinople. The Vikings are headed there as well, among them Ivar, nicknamed “Lucky Lad.”
Overcoming storms and the fury of their enemies, the Vikings sail to a place where even the sun is nothing like back home—gray and burning—and where people don’t even know what snow is. Under its light, the northerners can expect things that never even dreamed of at their cold homeland in the worst nightmare…