In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand mendisappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, waslost. Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travelsnorth, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how hisfather died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, andthey hate the Romans . . .
In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand mendisappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion´s honour, waslost. Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travelsnorth, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how hisfather died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, andthey hate the Romans . . .
