In these stories from NORTHLANDERS #20, 29, 35-36 and 42-50, Sven of Orkney comes face-to-face with his own mythology, a daring man named Dag becomes the first man ever to turn his Viking boat West, an old Icelandic fisherman discovers the body of a young girl embedded in the ice and the Hauksson family builds a powerful crime empire on Iceland

In this first volume NORTHLANDERS collecting # 1-8, DMZ writer Brian Wood stabs Viking lore in the face with a fresh take on what it means to be a warrior. Meet Sven, exiled Viking prince who must return to the desert lands of his birth to reclaim his vast inheritance after the death of his father. See why Entertainment Weekly calls it "a good