I bought this book based on a review, by its author, of Poul Anderson's "The Broken Sword" and thought that, with such critique of this latter book, this author really should have something above average to add to the Norse Saga genre.I was greatly disappointed. The pace is slow, the interest in the story and what happens to its characters ( that, admittedly, starts promisingly ) quickly fades away and the reading experience turns into an exercise in boredom.I give it 2 stars because of the huge effort in material and data collection that the author carried out, which is, in any case, worth of note.But the end result is a bore, I am very sorry to say.