A Hero's Ballad Fragmented by Cowardice and Greed but Bound By Duty, Love, and Faith What is the truth of the heroes in the ballad of the Hilhelm war? Viking-Slav shield walls fought mounted Turk archers, and the end was messy. Whole units disappeared and with them the axe-wielding berserker Keri Ellison, the blacksmith's son. Years later a mysterious stranger is asking questions about Keri-and is willing to pay for answers. Driven by treasure, revenge, or perhaps power, he sails a thousand leagues from the bone-littered Russian steppes through the axe-ravaged taverns of the Baltic to Norman England. But the trail proves cold... What happened to the blacksmith's son? Some survivors do not want the answer.