Dimensions
152 x 232 x 26mm
The Epic Tale of a Crusader Knight.
The first volume in an enthralling trilogy set in the time of the Crusades. An epic tale of courage, of Holy War, of an emotional and physical journey and a hero in Arn Magnusson well worthy of the telling.
In 1150, Arn Magnusson is born to an aristocratic Swedish family and spends his childhood at the Cistercian monastery of Varnhem where he is taught the best of spiritual and worldly learning, as well as being trained to become a master archer and swordsman. At seventeen, equipped to become a monk or a warrior, Arn returns home, a young man and yet an innocent in the ways of the world.
Two sisters cross his path: he is seduced by one yet falls deeply in love with the other, Cecilia. In loving two sisters he has committed a serious crime and he is sentenced to serve twenty years as a Knight Templar in the Holy Land . . .