The Viking's Skull

A mysterious runic ring and a full-sized human skull drive a layered mystery that entwines family secrets, a disputed legacy, and an apparent murder. A young man named Idris investigates clues that lead from a Breton shore to Ravenhall, uncovering hidden reliquaries, old letters, romantic tensions with Lorelie Rivière, and uneasy experiments in craniology that mix rational inquiry with superstition. Revelations about the ring's provenance and the skull's grim significance culminate in confrontations within funeral vaults and a decisive finale that settles the long-smoldering grievances surrounding the relics.