A brilliant historical debut that reads like a Viking GAME OF THRONES. Drawing from the Icelandic Sagas, THE HALF-DROWNED KING, tells the true story of Ragnvald of Maer, the right hand man of King Harald Fairhair, first king of all Norway, and his sister, Svanhild, as she tries to find freedom in a society where the higher her brother rises, the greater her worth as a political pawn.