Two Viking men are stranded in Newfoundland Canada when their party of explorers loses a battle with Skræling. The two men move northward, hoping to link up with an expedition led by Leif Ericson. They deal differently with the grim situation, one turning inward spiritually and the other reverting to a primal state, but both men are beset with memories of their earlier lives. Orn remembers his wife, and Volnard flashes back to his childhood home and his Christian sister who committed suicide after Volnard killed the man who converted her to Christianity. Traveling, they encounter two Irish monks who have escaped from another Viking party—one monk is murdered at first, and a makeshift Christian church is burned down. The other monk joins the journey. The Viking men disagree about the monk and they separate. On his own, Orn meets a beautiful native Abenaki people woman who drugs and rapes him. Volnard bonds with the surviving Christian monk who Foot washing. An Abenaki man trails Volnard, intending to kill him. Orn finds Volnard and the monk and kills the monk, enraging Volnard. The two Vikings fight, but spare each other. The next day, the Abenaki man kills Volnard and is then killed by Orn, who builds a funeral pyre for his dead countryman. The strange cold land ultimately prevails over Orn.
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