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.

Sacrificial Smoke, the third book in the trilogy, follows the life journey of Holme, now a master warrior and leader. Holme and Ausi face choices and dangers, as they contend with Christian missionaries in the face of the great sacrifices and ritual orgies at the pagan temple of Uppsala. Jan Fridegard is one of Sweden’s foremost authors. The Viking Slave Trilogy is his most famous work.