The Viking Slave Trilogy is Sweden’s greatest and most accurate saga of the Viking Age. The three volumes in the series − Land of Wooden Gods, People of the Dawn, and Sacrificial Smoke − are steeped in myth, magic, and the sensual but often cruel demands of the gods, Odin, Thor, and Frey. An epic of warrior chieftains and their slaves or ‘thralls’, the trilogy tests belief in the Norse Gods while going deep into the combative world and sacrificial rituals of Old Scandinavia.

Land of Wooden Gods, the first book in the trilogy, introduces the slave Holme. A skilled weapon-smith and dangerous warrior, Holme risks his life to save his child and his lover from a chieftain’s wrath. Jan Fridegard is one of Sweden’s foremost authors. The Viking Slave Trilogy is his most famous work.