SVEIN'S STORY
That was the day we discovered the fantastic riches piled up in the monasteries. Our ships were loaded with great booty: gold crosses, vases of gold and silver studded with precious stones, jewels, coffers filled with gold coins...

We did not yet know it, but we had just turned a page of history: the Christian world had just discovered us and learned to fear us.

"I still remember my grandfather's words,"
Seven winters had already passed since Eirik had come to live under our roof, and since my father and Erlend had undertaken to initiate us into the hard life of men of the North. As for me, Svein, I had gradually left childhood behind me.
"The moment of my first departure to Neustria had at last arrived."

Through a fictitious hero, Svein, this album retraces some of the great moment of the Viking epic, taking great care with the historical reconstitution. The slightest details of buildings, ships, weapons and clothes have been carefully verified, and the very theme of the story is based on real fact...

This strip cartoon "saga" has the two principal advantages of the old Icelandic sagas: it is at the same time history and entertainment.