Nikolas Goffridr sets out from his native Halogaland to win new lands for his family in the Sudreya, the Southern Isles, late in the 9th century. Accompanied by the Giant, Njiall, his teacher in the arts of war and story teller of the trials of Odin, he encounters an unexpected ally in the Pict Druidess, Flachra. Together and with a beautiful Pict queen at his side, they forge a new kingdom of the Isles that reaches to the coasts of Eire...