Eyðun, Sverri’s best friend, is hiding out in Raven Cliff Farm at Botnur, guarding Kristina, daughter of King Sverri, from the Bagler faction. Sverri is dead and Eyðun is growing old. During the long winter nights he tells Kristina her father’s tale.  

The Faroese Eyðun tells Sverri’s story. The story is coloured by the presence of other Faroese men in Norway.  

After Sverri has begun to call himself a son of a king and has become the leader of the Birkebeiners, he begins to train them as true warriors, ready to embark on Gorilla warfare. They must be patient, for the path ahead is long and tough ... and that it proves to be.  

It is also tangled, for “Sverri was convinced that if he only defeated the earl, the whole country was his. And if he won the arch bishop over on his side, the whole people was his.” And King Sigurð Munn, Sverri’s father, was renowned for having many a child with many a woman. But your head sat loose on your shoulders if you call yourself a king’s son. But Sverri meets on of his sisters, whom he develops close ties to.  

Sverri kongur 2 - Friðarleysir menn is the second volume in the trilogy about King Sverri.