num_pages: 288
description: Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff 's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from his home for unintentionally killing a man, who takes up a new life as a mercenary.
language: English
title: Sword Song
titlecomplete: Sword Song
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Juvenile, Young Adult, Classics, Medieval, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 441
series: The Dolphin Ring Cycle
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux