Cynwulf, shunned for being part Viking and part Saxon, lives beneath a beached Viking ship on the outskirts of the Anglo-Saxon community surrounding Tildric Hall. Life is hard enough for him as a half-breed misfit--until the fateful d...

Francis looked at Master Knox's still form and bit his lower lip. "Either they'll hang us all on the spot . . ." He paused. "Or enslave us in the galleys of the French." . . .I at first felt grateful that they did not hang us. There w...