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A group of Viking warriors return from a voyage of pillage and slaughter to find their homeland laid waste. Fimbulvinter, the epic Winter prelude to Ragnarok, has begun: brothers kill brothers, the people go mad and the countryside has fallen under the spell of a foul beast. The band of warriors set out on a quest to slay the creature.