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The Wanderer’s Necklace
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Olaf Red-Sword, a Norse warrior haunted by a recurring vision, leaves the northern world and enters the service of Byzantium. His love for the blind Egyptian woman Heliodore and his conflict with imperial power lead him through sea battles, religious change and the dangerous politics of Empress Irene’s court.
Haggard frames the adventure as a recovered memory, blending reincarnation with a historical setting. Viking mobility, the Varangian world and the ceremonial violence of Byzantium make the novel both a romance of fate and a historical fantasy about the meeting of northern and eastern empires.
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