Bjarki Bloodhand has finally managed to subdue his gandr, the spirit that gives him the ferocity of a bear in battle.
Yet losing his berserker prowess may leave him at the mercy of his foes.
Meanwhile, his half-sister, the shield maiden Tor Hildarsdottir, has slain two warriors from the personal retinue of the new Jarl of Norrland and now faces brutal reprisals for their deaths.
Valtyr Far-Traveller claims he has a solution to their problems: a long voyage south to the wild Slav lands to find a fabled lost sword said to once belong to the Norse trickster god.
The journey will prove more perilous than anything Bjarki or Tor has ever attempted before.
Can all three heroes hope to survive the desperate hunt for the Loki Sword?
The Loki Sword by Angus Donald, the third in his Fire Born series, is published on 11 August, 2022.
Angus talks about the background to The Last Berserker, the first book in this series, in How to become a berserker – a historical novelist’s guide. And in Widukind of Westphalia he writes about the 8th-century warlord who Bjarki and Tor join in book two, The Saxon Wolf.
He’s also written about the history behind his Holcroft Blood novels set in the later 17th century:
Thomas Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels
Why the Glorious Revolution was . . . well, neither
The never-ending Battle of the Boyne
