Guðmundur Bogason

Un enfant est le seul de sa famille a être épargné par des vikings lors d'un pillage en Irlande. Vingt ans plus tard, il part en Islande chercher sa vengeance.

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.