The Brotherhood of Odin expects their leader, young Orm the Trader, to lead them home from distant Miklagard. But Orm loses his legendary sword, on the hilt of which the road to Atli’s treasures is carved in runes. The sword was stolen by the treacherous Viking Starkad, and the brothers set off in pursuit of him. This time the whales' road runs over land - through the strife-ridden Byzantium and the deserts of the Middle East - but this land is many times more dangerous than the depths of the sea, it is not for nothing that it is nicknamed the Wolf Sea...