Logen Ninefingers

The Bloody-Nine: the North's most feared warrior, trying to be a better man.

Last updated 27 October 2026

Logen Ninefingers, renowned as the Bloody-Nine and later known as Lamb, is a Northman with a black name and an even blacker past who tries to turn away from the senseless violence he has followed for so long. He is a major point-of-view character in Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy and returns in Red Country as a major supporting character.

Quick Facts

Also known as

The Bloody-Nine; Lamb

Culture

Northmen

Title

King of the North (briefly, formerly)

Status

Unknown (as of 606 AU)

Appears in

The First Law trilogy (POV)
Red Country
Sharp Ends

Facts from the source article.

Background

Logen comes from the Brynn, north of the High Places. Sent south by his father to find help against Shanka attacks, he found the chieftain Bethod, who offered help if Logen would fight as his champion; when Logen came home, his village was a burned-out ruin and his father, wife and children were dead. Fighting for Bethod, he lost the middle finger of his left hand in the battle of Carleon and beat ten champions in duels in the circle, among them Black Dow, Tul Duru Thunderhead, Harding Grim and Rudd Threetrees.

When cornered in a fight he becomes the Bloody-Nine, a berserker who kills ally and enemy alike. After falling out with Bethod he travels with the Magus Bayaz, later kills Bethod at Carleon and briefly becomes King of the Northmen, until Black Dow betrays him. Years later he reappears far from the Union as a farmer called Lamb, stepfather to Shy South.

Source

Text adapted from Logen Ninefingers on the First Law Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.