An exciting and vivid account of the adventures of a boy, Bjarni, who is banished from a Viking settlement on the North-East coast of England for killing a man and causing the chief to become an oath-breaker. He takes to the sea as a mercenary swordsman, travelling to Dublin, then up to Belfast Lough and finally to the seas around the West coast of Scotland, where he learns how to fight like a man among the feuding clan-chiefs. Girls and boys of eleven and over will love this exciting story, set against a backdrop of England and Scotland's history in the making.