In the days of old, life could be cheap. Death, however, could be very expensive. "There is one problem. And here he comes, at this very moment." Yes, Thorolf Pike was trouble. Declared an outlaw and exiled from his home, he had come from Surtsheim, where his fellow Norsemen lived, to Northlanding, where English settlers lived. Now he was dead, by an unknown hand. Who killed him? And, should the murderer be judged by English law, or by Norse law for the crime of secret murder? What if, in the middle ages, North America had been settled by Europeans? The Americas would have developed very...