Vikings. The Curse of the Magi

For fans of the historical TV series “VIKINGS,” awarded record ratings and rave reviews from viewers. A NEW novel about the great era of the Vikings—their iron- and blood-scented warships, the drakkars, struck fear across all of Europe. A Slavic youth taken captive by the Varangians during a raid grows into a fearsome warrior and a renowned skald, whose songs are passed from mouth to mouth from the Swedish fjords to Gardarika, and whose irresistible sword sends so many heroes to Valhalla that the Valkyries are left exhausted—and at Odin’s feast there is no longer enough room.

What does the Skald keep in the bloody paradise of battles? Who leads him from victory to victory— the Norman aces, or Slavic gods? Thor’s hammer, or Perun’s svastika cross? The sacrifices of the Varangian priests, or the spell of Slavic волхви that guards against evil? Will he be able to forget his lost homeland, his native language, his mother’s face—or will he sacrifice everything, even immortality, just to return home?