For the first time, his father, a Novgorod merchant, took Oleg overseas, to the distant lands of the Franks, to trade furs and honey. They sailed calmly. They passed the Varangian Sea, the Danes were paid, another day, and the shore will appear... Sails!.. The boats cannot escape the drakkars, and the Novgorodians are doomed. They are not warriors, and the northerners do not take prisoners... But Oleg survived.