Sigga Ulfrsdottir hasn’t seen her father Ulf Svenson but a handful of time since he left her and her sister in Rusland to join the Varangian Guard. She can’t be sure he is even alive. Under the tutelage of Málfríðr, aged mother of Vladimir prince of the Rus and exiled seeress, she has learned to hone her skills as a seiðkona, walker of the Nine Worlds. But even the Norns will not reveal all they know about the twists and turns of the Wod and Orlog, the secrets to the fate of all men. Why does Sviatopolk the Accursed declare war on his three brothers, or why the strange Icelander Thorsteinn Dromund seeks her help in locating a man in the Varangian Guard in Constantinople. A mysterious casket has made it into the hands of Ivan Vladislav, tsar of Bulgaria, who now that he has the throne he has always coveted, He has a score to settle with Basil II, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. It isn’t long before Sigga’s role in the saga of the casket becomes apparent.
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