This is an adventure story with the main character being a Northlander from the icy sea, filled with ease, warmth, friendship, and love. The background is the magical prehistoric era of 8000 years ago. In this era, not long after the great flood, the era of pyramids has not yet arrived, Cave lions, hairy rhinoceroses, and mammoths roam the wilderness, legends of the barbarian Conan are still spreading on the earth, the Sumerian city-state towers in the two river valleys, Sargon and Elam confront each other in all directions, and the Scorpion King, Masayes, is about to rule Egypt. (The book contains homosexual love.)