“How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered.”

Those were the prophetic last words of the legendary viking Ragnarr Loðbrok as he lay dying in the snake pit of Northumbrian king Ælla. In 867 the vengeful sons of Loðbrok and their 'Great Heathen Army' descended upon the petty kingdoms of Britain to make of Ælla a 'Blood Eagle'. Meanwhile, two other Norse lords - Rurik and Dyre - were carving out their own rival states among the Slavic and Finnish tribes of the East, laying down the foundations for what would one day become Russia. The Old Gods are still strong and their warriors mighty!