Row Row Row Your Longship Gently Down the Sea: Guy Gavriel Kay's The Last Light of the Sun

So, I made a mistake, and lent The Lions of Al-Rassan to Cat as soon as I dug it out of the box just to show my book craving doesn't rule me, but it does.  It does.  Left without my favorite Guy Gavriel Kay fix, I shelled out the last of my Hanukkah gift certificates for the horribly expensive trade paperback edition of The Last Light of the Sun and read it in one day when I should have been studying for my Law midterm.

In the British Isles of Kay's fictional Europe (the one with the two moons) in the time of Alfred the Great (or his fictional equivalent) Erlings have settled amidst the Anglcyn, paying tribute to their king, while others raid the coasts.  A young man, Bern, escapes his life as a landless servant to join a famous band of Erling mercenaries As two brothers seek to kill a Cyngael who killed their grandfather.  When a Cyngael prince falls to them, his brother and a cleric find themselves in the Anglcyn court as the Erling raiders descend upon them...

( A horse, he came to understand, was missing. )

Damn it, I want The Lions of Al-Rassan back.