Northlanders Book 1: The Anglo-Saxon Saga

The first of three volumes chronicling the entire NORTHLANDERS saga! Writer BRIAN WOOD (DMZ <i>Rebels</i> <i>The Massive</i>) with a lineup of acclaimed artists including DAVIDE GIANFELICE (<i>Daredevil: Reborn</i>) and RYAN KELLY (LUCIFER) brings his modern stylish sensibility a thousand years into the past. <br><br> The British Isles were a tempting target to the Vikings who craved lush land to farm and rich monasteries to plunder and the fractured Saxon kingdoms were barely able to resist.&#160; But as time progressed and the centuries-old pagan belief in nature the fates and a raucous warrior afterlife were gradually replaced by the rigid traditions of Christianity a dark ages culture war took shape.<br><br> An exiled Viking warrior returns to Orkney to claim a family title in &#147;Sven The Returned.&#148; A trio of Norse wives hold a coastal fort against wave after wave of invaders in &#147;The Shield Maidens.&#148;&#160;A forensic investigator tracks a series of killings across pagan Ireland in &#147;The Cross And The Hammer.&#148;&#160; &#147;Thor&#146;s Daughter&#148; introduces a young woman the sudden and tragic heir to an army of impatient warriors.&#160;And in the poignant &#147;Lindisfarne&#148; a young boy witnesses the brutal monastery raid that started it all.<br><br> Collects NORTHLANDERS #1-16 #18-19 and #41.