Vinland Saga — Volumes

Volume 1

9782351423554 · 2009-01-01

Since Askeladd, a deceitful and unhonored warlord, killed his father when he was a child, Thorfinn has been following him everywhere for the purpose of revenge. But although he has become a formidable warrior, he still fails to defeat his enemy. Over the years, chaining perilous missions and fighting in order to obtain duels against the man whom he hates more than anything, the Gentile Thorfinn has become cold and lonely, prisoner of his past and unable to move forward. Until life forces him to look at the World differently...

Volume 2

9782351423561 · 2009-03-01

Thors and his family led a peaceful life in a small village in Iceland. Until this terrible day when a vessel of the Vikings of Jom entered the harbour. At their head, the dreadful Floki, a bird of bad augurs with an unequivocal message for Thors, the "Jom Troll". If the one agrees to join the ranks of Jomsvikings in their campaign against England, his desertion fifteen years earlier will be forgiven. Otherwise, everything to which he stands will be destroyed. Forced and forced, Thors agrees to go to the place of appointment. But it is not Floki who awaits him there, it is Askeladd the mercenary, Askeladd the Fur, Askeladd... the assassin. The veil is finally lifted on Thorfinn's past and the origin of his hatred towards Askeladd.

Volume 3

9782351423578 · 2009-06-01

In August 1013, following the massacre of the Viking camps in Northumbria, the Danish army becomes increasingly aggressive in England. Expedition after expedition, the army led by Floki, joined by that of Askeladd, finally arrives in London.

Volume 4

9782351423585 · 2009-09-01

England 1013. With winter setting in and the snow making the roads impassable, Knut's army is forced to settle in a small English village until spring. To ensure their position remained secret, Askeladd did not hesitate to massacre all the villagers, men, women, and children. Askeladd does not remain inactive. He has a dream, and to achieve it, he must find a way to transform Prince Knut into a ruthless warlord...

Volume 5

9782351423592 · 2009-12-01

England 1013. With winter setting in and the snow making the roads impassable, Knut's army is forced to settle in a small English village until spring. To ensure their position remained secret, Askeladd did not hesitate to massacre all the villagers, men, women, and children. Askeladd does not remain inactive. He has a dream, and to achieve it, he must find a way to turn Prince Knut into a ruthless warlord...

Volume 6

9782351425114 · 2010-03-01

After weeks of race-continuation across England, Askeladd's army was finally caught up with Thorkell's. Seeing Askeladd seriously wounded, Thorfinn rushed into the bloody battle. To save the head of his father's killer, the young Icelander in exile agreed to fight in duel against Thorkell. Prince Knut, traumatized by the death of his faithful Ragnar, took a decision that would upset Europe.

Volume 7

9782351425350 · 2010-06-01

Escorted by Askeladd and the recalcitrant Thorfinn, Prince Knut finally arrives at the camp of Gainborough, bolstered by Thorkell's army, which has joined his cause. He is received in audience by King Sven himself. A psychological war then begins between the old king and his young son, who does not hide his intention of taking the throne. For all the protagonists of the story, it is time to choose their path, to fulfill their destiny, or perhaps to free themselves from it. But the road promises to be long and stained with blood.

Volume 8

9782351425367 · 2010-10-01

Arriving in York where his father, King Sven, 'invited' him to come celebrate his military prowess, Knut plots a coup d'état with the wise advice of Askeladd. But during the banquet, things go wrong. Sven, aware of his son's ambition, offers Askeladd an unequivocal choice: the country of Wales or Knut. If Askeladd does not bring Sven Knut's head, he will send his armies to raze the country of his ancestors. Cornered, Askeladd makes a decision that will shake not only Thorfinn's life, but the life of all of Europe.

Volume 9

9782351426012 · 2011-03-01

Thorfinn's life changed the day Knut killed Askeladd and the newly self-proclaimed king of England sold him into slavery to punish him for daring to lay a hand on him. The young man now lives in Denmark, on Ketil's farm. Or rather, he survives. Deprived of his reason for living, he is nothing more than a shadow of himself. His encounter with Einar, a slave recently acquired by Master Ketil, however, will force him to change his attitude. Einar is as full of life as Thorfinn is apathetic, and he is determined to regain his freedom by working hard. For the first time in his life, Thorfinn has a friend, and his entire worldview is at risk of being shaken. ...

Volume 10

9782351426814 · 2011-10-01

In contact with Einar, Thorfinn sees a world that was foreign. Yet, he continues to be swallowed up by nightmares that he never manages to remember and yet seem to contain an important message. But no life is free of violence, and Thorfinn and Einar have more and more problems with farmers on the farm, jealous to see the master pay attention to vulgar slaves. Then for Thorfinn the moment comes to remember the words of his father and Askeladd and to make the most important choice of his life...

Volume 11

9782351427828 · 2012-12-01

Thanks to their efforts and hard labor, Thorfinn and Einar can finally glimpse their freedom. But the declining health of the old master, Sverker, is far from the only shadow looming over the happiness of the two slaves. In a neighboring farm, the owner, Carrock, along with his entire family, are massacred by one of their slaves, eager to avenge the humiliations he suffered from his master. After burning the farm, he collapses in nature... But the greatest threat to Ketil's farm will come from the capital of the Danish kingdom, Jelling.

Volume 12

9782351429297 · 2013-11-01

A slave on Ketil's farm in Denmark, Thorfinn has little in common with the mercenary who roamed battlefields hoping to avenge his father by killing the cynical Askeladd. Through contact with the farm's inhabitants, whether free or slaves, Thorfinn discovers a new life far from combat, made of hard labor, sweat, and earth. Still haunted by his past crimes, he vows to renounce violence. But when a runaway slave arrives at Ketil's estate with the Serpent and his men in pursuit, he will have to decide if there are not situations that warrant honorable men fighting.

Volume 13

9782368520796 · 2014-11-01

Thorfinn has turned his back on his life as a mercenary and now aspires to a life of non-violence. But after the failed escape of Gardar and Arneis, which resulted in the death of several of the Serpent's men as well as Gardar himself. Arneis, Thorfinn, and Einar are tied up and locked in the barn awaiting their punishment. A few days later, Master Ketil secretly returns to the farm by the Leif's boat, after the king, determined to dispossess him of his wealth.

Volume 14

9782368520802 · 2015-03-01

King Knut's army has landed in the estate of Ketil. Far from admitting to being defeated, Ketil has gathered his troops to defend his farm. But without a real military formation, the peasants are far from being large in front of the dreadful Jomsvikings. Murderous madness falls on the farm. Thorfinn and Einar, for their part, who have finally gained their freedom, decide to leave everything with Leif to found, in Vinland, a country where peace will reign. If Einar is tempted to leave without a look back, this is not the case of Thorfinn. The latter remains furious against Master Ketil since he killed Arneis.

Volume 15

9782368522097 · 2015-11-01

Thorfinn and Einar, finally free, return with Leif Eriksson to Iceland, Thorfinn's homeland, in the hope of finding the necessary funding to establish a colony in Vinland. Only Hafdan, the richest man in the region, has the means to finance their expedition. Although the man seems interested in exploiting Vinland, he does not look favorably upon Thorfinn's lack of guarantees. Yet, to celebrate his son's wedding to Leif's sister-in-law, who would rather set out to discover the World, Hafdan gives Thorfinn a strange gift...

Volume 16

9782368522738 · 2016-05-01

As Thorfinn, Einar, and Leif prepare to leave for Greece, the first stop on their expedition to Vinland, they are forced to leave Iceland in a hurry, taking Gudrid with them, who, unable to give up her dreams of discovering the World and take on the role of a conventional wife imposed upon her by tradition, stabbed Sigurd during their wedding night. Barely started, their journey is plagued by unforeseen events: a fugitive, a baby, a dog, pursuers, a killer bear. The situation becomes even more complicated when Thorfinn finds himself face-to-face with the child of a man he assassinated on the battlefield.

Volume 17

9782368524176 · 2016-12-01

Thorfinn and his crew are on their way to Greece, the first stop on their expedition to Vinland. They make a stop on the European continent, in Norway, near Bergen. Hardly having disembarked, Thorfinn is attacked by a bear and saved at the last moment by Hild, a hunter, who offers to share her meal with them. As everyone sits around the fire, Hild tells them about the night her life changed, when a horde of warriors raided her village and massacred her family. As her story unfolds, Thorfinn realizes that he was one of the aggressors and that Hild recognized him...

Volume 18

9782368524626 · 2017-09-01

After a battle that almost cost Thorfinn his life, Hild agreed to leave him a stay until he had fulfilled his promise to create a country of peace in Vinland. The hunters joined the crew in order to keep an eye on him. Shortly after returning to the road, the crew stopped in Jelling to buy supplies for the trip. All were unaware that Thorkell and his army were stationed there and that Floki, in the midst of the Jomsvikings succession war, landed there as well...

Volume 19

9782368525869 · 2018-02-01

Far from keeping their promise to leave Thorfinn and Hild on the island of Fionie, where Einar and the others await them, the Jomsvikings take them to the military camp of Vagn. This old friend of Thor opposes Floki's rise, who is willing to do anything to make his grandson Baldur the Supreme Commander of the Jomsvikings. If Vagn wishes the title to return to Thorfinn, Thorfinn wants nothing more than to continue his journey to Vinland. But many try to bring him back to his warrior life, starting with Garm, the assassin sent by Floki...

Volume 20

9782368526989 · 2018-11-01

Since the sudden death of the Supreme Commander of the Jomsvikings, two factions are clashing for control of Jomsborg. Floki's faction, which wants the title for his grandson Baldur, who is still a child, and Vagn's faction, which has chosen Thorfinn, son of Thor, as its leader without asking his opinion. Ready to do anything to get rid of Thorfinn, Floki sent his best assassin, Garm, to kill him. But instead, he returns with Vagn's head and three hostages: Leif, Einar, and Gudrid. The murder of Vagn provokes Thorkell's anger, who breaks his alliance with Floki and marches with his army on Jomsborg.

Volume 21

9782368527269 · 2019-04-01

The siege of Jomsborg fortress drags on. Thorkell's army, camped outside the fortress, and Floki's army, protected by the city's impregnable ramparts, continue their war of succession in the name of their champions, Thorfinn and Baldur, without caring that neither of them has the slightest desire to become the Supreme Commander of the Jomsvikings. At Floki's order, Gudrid is held hostage inside the fortress. Floki hopes to use her to lure Thorfinn into an ambush and kill him. He is unaware that Baldur has revealed to Einar the existence of a secret passage connecting the Jomsborg well to the river, on the other side of the ramparts, in the hope that he will negotiate peace with Thorfinn and Thorkell...

Volume 22

9782368528402 · 2019-12-01

Despite the numerous assaults of Thorkell's allied forces, Jomsborg's fortress remains unobtrusive. Thanks to a secret passage, Thorfinn managed to infiltrate Gudrid, who was held hostage by Floki. But he finds himself facing the enthusiast Garm, who is determined to have his duel to death. Forced to fight, will Thorfinn have to renounce his oath and kill again, under Hild's accuser's gaze? Sigurd, who followed Thorfinn in the fortress to recover his wife, finds himself in the center of the fight when he takes Baldur hostage in force the Jomsvikings to open the door of the fortress to let Thorkell's army enter...

Volume 23

9782368529614 · 2020-07-01

The succession war of the Jomsvikings has ended. Thorfinn and his troop are preparing to set off for Miklagard, an essential stop to finance their journey to Vinland. Meanwhile, Sigurd, Gudrid's husband who came to Jomsborg to find her, is preparing to return to Iceland. Gudrid promised she would return with him. Sigurd's honor depends on his return. Yet, after being at the heart of a bloody war, Sigurd has doubts. Should Gudrid and he truly live the life that Halfdan, Sigurd's father, chose for them?

Volume 24

9782368529621 · 2021-04-01

Thorfinn and his team are back in Iceland after crossing Europe and going as far as Byzantium. Now that they have earned enough to finance their expedition to Vinland, all they need are volunteers to create a colony in the country of their dreams. Under the merciless eye of Hild, ready to kill him at the slightest deviation, Thorfinn tries to recruit other dreamers, but his refusal to bring swords to Vinland is not well received by all the warriors of the North, for whom the sword is the soul of a man...

Volume 25

9782380711516 · 2022-01-01

Thorfinn and his crew make a brief stop at Leif's farm to bid him farewell before setting off for Vinland. Leif has changed. So much ground has been covered since the death of Thor and the beginning of Thorfinn's journey. Fortunately, Gros-Yeux seems incapable of changing. The day of the great departure has arrived; the sea now opens before the travelers, full of mysteries and unknown creatures. But when they finally set foot on the land of all their hopes, will they find the utopian land they have always dreamed of, or another world like the one they left, full of wars and violence?

Volume 26

9782380713183 · 2022-11-01

After a long journey, Thorfinn's expedition finally arrived in Vinland and all worked tirelessly to establish a prosperous colony.Not far from there, the natives of the region observed with curiosity the arrival of such different people.

Volume 27

9782380715453 · 2023-11-01

Since their arrival in Vinland, the land of all their hopes, the pioneers have cleared large forest areas to create vast wheat fields. Although their first contacts with the natives, the Lnu people, were cordial and marked by mutual curiosity, some Norsemen, led by Ivar and Ugge, remain convinced that they must prepare for war. This belief is shared by the shaman of the Gitpi tribe, traumatized by his prophetic vision of the destruction of his people and the American continent by the settlers. Will Thorfinn be able to save his pacifist dream against people who only think of war? Contains chapters 192 to 201.

Volume 28

9791042014810 · 2024-12-01

Since the shaman of the Gitpi tribe saw in a dream the future that the European colonists held for his people, he is willing to do anything to drive the Norsemen out of Vinland. Now that Ivar has cut off his hand in front of everyone, tension is rising on both sides, exacerbated by those for whom Thorfinn's pacifism is merely a coward's utopia. Yet, many are repulsed by conflict... Until a strange malady begins to decimate the Lnu'g. Will the dream of a utopian Vinland end in a bloodbath?

Volume 29

9791042019396 · 2026-05-01

Last volume! Also available as a collector's version! Thorkell warned him: "Put three men anywhere and you can be sure that it will end in war". Mercenary child thirsty for revenge, slave on a farm, merchant, chief of expedition... After a life of trials, Thorfinn had finally reached Vinland, the promised land where he was aspired to found a peaceful country. But the war caught him and the village of Arnéis got caught up. To avoid the bloodbath, Thorfinn promised the Lnu'g that the Norrois would leave Vinland. Yet, many are those who reject this peace of cowardice. Even Einar took up the weapons to defend his village. There is "no choice", we must fight. When the world is devoured by the flames and the corpses gather together, can we still choose peace? A poignant conclusion of the Nordic saga that raises the question of what is a true warrior!