An epic tale told from the perspective of three different characters on their own quests who’s path converge towards the end. I honestly found the Norse/Viking parts to be distracting from the narrative as there are frequent use of such words that required to think about what the author is referring to such as bairn, jarl, and many other words (some even requiring knowledge of how to pronounce them properly). The worst is the magic where magic wielding characters are calling out spells that you will have no idea how to read or what they mean. All those things combined to irritate me to no end and I found myself not even bothering to read through the sentences of spells. In my opinion, if you’re going to write something that most people will not know how to properly read or pronounce, then don’t bother with writing it down and instead use descriptions that your audience will understand and connect with.
Ultimately, those are the things that bogged down the story and made it hard to connect to characters and the world.
The action scenes are fine but are also inconsistent where one of the characters tells someone to not rush to action and wait for more opportune time to attack, yet shortly after goes against the advice and jumps into a fight where they are outnumbered. This was so bizarre even the author has one of the characters make a comment on it.
Decent book with an epic scope if you can look past some glaring flaws.