Arn

Arn Magnusson remembers, as a fearful crusading templar, his youth in fractured Sweden's West Gotland.

Arn's brothers wold be-fiancée fails to seduce Arn before he finds out she's the sister of his beloved.

Arn is now a seasoned Templar, enjoying trust and respect of the grand master.

Templar Arn expects to return home with an honorable discharge from the late grandmaster after a last desert mission.

The haughty grandmaster's expedition ends as disastrously as Arn warned: the crusader army is annihilated by Saladin's at the battle of Hattin.

After happy years for Arn and his finally reunited family, king Knut is dying, spelling a bloody civil war.