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.

People of the Dawn, the second book in the trilogy, follows the struggles of the escaped slaves, Holme and his lover Ausi. The two hunted fugitives reach the trading town of Birka, thinking they will be safe, but… .