Building a Viking Empire with Modern Industry Novel

Ragnar is an eighteen-year-old bastard son of a struggling chieftain, thrust into the Viking Age of 865 AD. A month earlier, he was a Senior Naval Architect in Seattle, designing efficient cargo vessels. Now, he faces a suicide mission to England that could destroy his entire village. His people dismiss him as a coward for refusing to raid and his obsession with concepts like logistics and drag coefficients. They call his methods madness. Yet Ragnar sees what others cannot. Where Vikings see longships, he envisions optimized displacement curves. Where they see storms, he identifies harvestable wind energy. While his village plays at war, Ragnar is engineering an empire through modern innovation. This story follows his transformation from despised bastard to powerful warlord, as he uses advanced engineering knowledge to revolutionize Viking civilization and build an unprecedented industrial empire in the frozen North.