num_pages: 320
description: The hero of this phenomenally successful historical trilogy is Arn Magnusson, born in 1150 to an aristocratic Swedish family. THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM covers his childhood and education at the Cistercian monastry of Varnhem. There he is taught the best of spiritual and worldly learning, as well as being trained to become a master archer and swordsman by the giant Brother Guilbert, a former knight. At seventeen, equipped to become a monk or a warrior, Arn returns home, a young man and yet an innocent in the ways of the world. Two sisters cross his path: one seduces him, while with the other sister, Cecilia, he falls deeply in love. In loving two sisters he has committed a crime punishable by both civil and clerical authorities, and he is sentenced to serve 20 years as a Knight Templar in the Holy Land.
language: English
title: The Road to Jerusalem
titlecomplete: The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1)
characters: Sverker I of Sweden, Canute I of Sweden, Charles VII of Sweden, Arn Magnusson, Eric IX of Sweden, Birger Brosa
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Novels, Medieval, Sweden, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 8294
series: The Crusades Trilogy
publisher: Orion