Hastings

The year is 1059, and Norse marauders raid and plunder Geffrey’s small Normandie village of Lochwald. Standing in the midst of burning rubble, he finds his father murdered, his mother and fiancé nowhere to be found. Geffrey is taken prisoner to slave away in the iron mines in distant Saxony. After he saves the lives of men trapped in an underground cave-in, Geffrey is promoted to work in the forges, making and fabricating steel weapons to be used by the Norsemen. With the aid of several friends, Geffrey escapes the mines and returns to his village where he rebuilds the family home. When soldiers of Duke William of Normandie come through the village recruiting men for the duke’s army, Geffrey and his friends join and are caught up in the duke’s plan to conquer and become King of England…