THE WAY OF THE RAVEN - VOLUME II OF THE LOST VIKING SAGA
Their world destroyed by raiding Portuguese slavers, a handful of Norse survivors escape from the doomed Medieval Norse settlement of Eystribygð on Greenland. The Greenlanders' fate is sealed when their ship, blown off course, is wrecked upon the shores of the virtually unknown Western lands, leaving them castaways in the New World. Befriended by a local Native American tribe, they make a new life for themselves in the place they come to call Vínland. A young Greenlander, obsessed with returning home, embarks with on a misguided adventure seeking to find reported Norse sailors in the hope of gaining passage to Greenland. On this ill-fated journey he begins a star-crossed love affair, the tragic repercussions of which will echo into modern times.
Present day Oslo: Physician Leonard Koll is haunted by dark, mysterious visions of what appear to hint at a former life. A high-stakes lawsuit involving a corrupt pesticide corporation takes Leonard to Canada, somehow triggering further strange, dreamlike experiences. In an unexpected turn of events, the source of these visions and dreams is revealed to him after undergoing The Wind in the Blood, an esoteric regression therapy. With this comes the realization that his own tragic past with a former lover mirror that of the distant past, and that he must right wrongs committed five hundred years earlier in order to gain catharsis and closure and in the present.
A sweeping tale of love lost and found, The Way of the Raven is a compelling story concerning the threads that connect us -across oceans, time, and through the very fabric of existence itself.
