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NORVASUND –– The Straits of Gibraltar.
SARKEL –– Byzantine-engineered fortress of the Khazars on the Don river, which controlled the trade routes to the east so successfully that the Rus of Kiev eventually decided that it had to be captured.
SERKLAND –– Baghdad. Also the generic name for the Middle East (so called because, it seemed to the Norse, the people there only ever wore underwear—àserk' or white undershirt).
SKIRRINGSAAL — Once a Norse Baltic seasonal trade fair, called `Kaupang' by foreigners—a Viking joke, since that's what they told them it was called when asked. Kaupang simply means 'a market'.
Robert Low has been a journalist and writer since the age of seventeen in places as diverse as Vietnam, Sarajevo, Romania, and Kosovo until common sense and the concerns of his wife and daughter prevailed.
To satisfy his craving for action, he took up re-enactment, joining The Vikings. He now spends summers fighting furiously in helmet and mail in shieldwalls all over Britain and winters training hard. He lives in Largs, Scotland, where the Vikings were finally defeated and expelled from the UK.
This is his first novel. He is currently working on his second novel, which continues the adventures of Orm and the Oathsworn.
Please visit his Web site at www.robertlow.com.
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