Eric Neilson

After completing his quest to avenge himself on the villian Harud Olafsson, Haakon finally acquieses to Thor's demand for his service. The demand that Thor makes is that Haakon find the new world. Thor and the gods of the Aesir know that change is coming - change brought by Christianity - and that the religion of Thor and Odin will not survive the coming of the White Christ. Unfortunatley for Haakon and his crew, the sea is not the only thing that they must overcome on their way to the new world. For Rosamund, looking to reestablish Haakon's holdings in Ireland, things aren't easy either. She has a winter to prepare for an assult upon her lands by an army led by her father and brothers and she can't call for reinforcements from Norway. Things
are tough all over.

Again, I saw what I took to be an improvement in the quality of the author's writing style over the previous volume in the series. In this volume, we again have Haakon rushing back to Rosamund. In this one, though, he doesn't have to save the day - Rosamund and her people have taken care of business on their own.

At the end of the story we see Haakon asking Rosamund if she would want to go exploring the new world with him. This would seem to indicate that there is more to tell, but from what I've been able to find, this one was the final volume the author produced. To an extent, I'm glad that this volume was the end. Haakon had served his god's wishes by discovering the Americas and ensuring that the vikings and by extension, their gods, would be remembered and would not fade from the earth forever.… (altro)