In 850 AD a shipwrecked viking longboat leaves one survivor on the shores of ancient Alba a Northman who is on the run from a dark past. 850AD Alba present day Scotland. Night. A storm rages on the Great Sea and a Viking drakkar is shipwrecked against the cliffs. The only prisoner on the ship a Northman miraculously manages to escape. Fleeing from its past from unforgiving nature and armed only with luck the man moves into the clearings of the coast. A foreigner and hated in this land the sk