About the book: 2004 / Trouble is approaching the lands of the Vikings, Slovenes and Rus: fleeing from a mysterious threat, the peoples of the South are rushing to the north. The war has reached Kyiv and Holmgard (Veliky Novgorod) and has come close to the Northern Lands... The famous king Ivar the Dodger is faced with a choice: what is more important to him than wealth, fame or his homeland? Setting out on a new and dangerous campaign, he does not suspect that Chernobog’s servants have sentenced him to death..