H. Rider Haggard · 1914 · sea

H. Rider Haggard's 1914 novel. The Norseman Olaf leaves his northern home of Aar and voyages south into the Byzantine world - to Constantinople and on to Egypt - a sweeping tale of reincarnated love, war and vengeance carrying its hero across the medieval Mediterranean in pursuit of a fated woman and a cursed necklace.

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   Aar

   Olaf's home in Jutland, from which grief and destiny drive him out into the wide world.

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   Constantinople

   The imperial city of the Greeks, where Olaf rises in the Varangian guard and is snared in the Empress Irene's intrigues.

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   Alexandria

   Egypt, the ancient land to which Olaf's wanderings and his love at last carry him.