The Saxon prince Sigwulf lost his family, possessions, wealth in the war - everything except his noble name and life itself. His winner, the king of the Angles, sends the captive to the Frankish king Charlemagne as an ambassador, or rather, a noble hostage. At the court of the greatest of the rulers of the Western world, a ruler whose very name has become synonymous with power, love and treachery, learned conversations and bloody battles await Sigwulf. And friendship with the bravest warrior the earth has ever known. The man whose glorious exploits, reckless courage and terrible death Sigwulf will sing, composing the legendary “Song of Roland”...