The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in
screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions.
Led by their chief, Boierik, and his son, Eodan, the hungry and
homeless pagan tribes hurled back the Romans time after time in
their desperate search for land. But for all the burning towns, the
new-caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri
did not find a home.
And now it was over. At Vercellae the Roman armies shattered them
completely. Only a few survived--and for them death would have been
more merciful.
Eodan, the proud young chieftain, had been caught and sold into
slavery, his infant son murdered and his beautiful wife, Hwicca, taken
as a concubine.
But whips and slave chains could not break the spirit of this fiery
pagan giant who fought, seduced and connived his way to a perilous
freedom to rescue the woman he loved.