Tyrker's Tale (The World's Edge Series Book 1)

Tyrker, a slave belonging to the Viking chieftain Eirik the Red, has been given the task of educating Eirik's young sons, Leif and Tosti, in the arts of weaponry. Forbidden to marry, he longs to have his own family. Instead, he must learn to live with serving another man – until one day something unexpected happens.

First in Robin Ingle's World's Edge Series of short stories, Tyrker's Tale takes place in tenth-century Iceland, in the years prior to Eirik the Red's settlement in Greenland.