Saga & Sigill – historical fiction

Historical novel

From land-surveyor to knight — forty years in the service of two kings and a duke.

Nils Boije was a Finnish nobleman, in his youth a land-surveyor like his father. But war called, and he rose: squire, bailiff of Raseborg, fodder-marshal, knight — dubbed by Erik XIV.

For forty years he served the Vasa kings, true to his word to two kings and a duke — a remarkable career that cost him more than he had reckoned. Few soldiers grew old. He did.

One night in August 1565 he stands, old, beneath the walls of Varberg with five hundred men behind him. Once more he must keep what he swore — whatever it costs.

The first novel of the Boije family.

Svante Boije af Gennäs

Historical novel

Five kings, a realm split in two — and the choice: which master, and at what price?

Stockholm, the winter of 1672. A young man from the House of Nobility calls on an aged woman with her tables and dates — and a question about her father, the simplest of all. She cannot answer it: no one wrote down when Göran Boije was born. But the hour of his death she knows.

Between those points lies a life in the service of the crown — captain of horse in the wars of the king, stadtholder of Reval, the man who rose through a realm where the favour of kings never stood still. Until the realm was split between king and duke, and he was forced to choose.

This is the story of what the choice cost.

The second novel of the Boije family — a free-standing sequel to Fodermarsken.

Svante Boije af Gennäs