The Road to Miklagard

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The Road to Miklagard is a novel by Henry Treece. It is the second in a series of three novels; the others are Viking's Dawn and Viking's Sunset.

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It describes the adventures of Harald Sigurdsson, a Viking who sails to Miklagard (aka Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul) where he joins the famous Varangian Guard. The action also travels to a giant's treasure cave in Ireland and Gibraltar, which is known as Jebel Tarik. Eventually Harald returns home to Norway via the great ship-portage on the Dnieper.

See also The Long Ships, another historical Viking novel.