You’ll find a more historically accurate story which features the disir (think angels in nature with good and not so good sides) who appealed greatly to Viking women.
I dig into viking culture and go beyond the “Odin and Valkyries” worshipping Vikings. There’s a reason for pointing this out.
In the same way, our modern era has Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc. The same was true for Vikings. This truth plays into the life of Ilsa, the heroine, and other women of Vellefold.
An over-the-top alpha male hero.
I love those strong, take charge men. Sometimes I write them (that’d be Rurik to a “T”). But Bjorn wasn’t cut from that cloth.
You won’t find a sex heavy story (some readers say “There wasn’t enough romance” when “romance” is code for “sex.”) I’m giving you the heads up.
You won’t find the typical Viking invader romance.