Battles, Sarah Dahl
The Viking war mentality
… and why it made them such feared fighters The wisdom of Odin Cattle die, Kindred die, We ourselves die just the same; But the good repute Never dies Of…
What were Saxon ships like? – Guest post by historical fiction author Mary Anne Yarde
Upon the headland the Geats erected a broad high tumulus plainly visible to distant seaman… withinthe barrows they placed collars, broaches and all the trappings which they had plundered from…
How the Vikings celebrated Christmas
About Santa Odin, the law to get drunk, and the bloody origin of our new year’s resolutions When looking at the Viking pagan religion, we have to go back at…
Expanding research horizons: Hunting Vikings!
Story finding-time … off to new (nothern) shores! It’s a given that historical fiction writers have to do their research. The writer has to be so much “into” her era…
Viking Children Learned the Art of War – ThorNews
To be a Viking child: becoming fighters and trusting the Norns We know from the sagas that Viking boys were trained in the art of war. The Viking’s success in…
The iconic idiocy of horned helmets
Or: Why horns were real … weren’t they? As a writer of Viking historical fiction – sensual or not – I stumble regularly across the silly misconception of warriors wearing…
Historical fiction doesn’t get better than “Hild”: my review
The time has come that I stand up and cheer for an author’s achievement. What. A. Read. “Hild”. Is. I spent a much too long time reading Nicola Griffith’s “Hild”…
Hey, writer, that’s not realistic …
Or: Artistic freedom in historical fiction Following my post about which internal obstacles sometimes restrain me (or why I shy away where I shouldn’t) I also encounter instances where I’m…
The art of seduction, or …
… Slow equals sexy! Last week I spoke about How to resist the temptation of a new, shiny story idea’s flirtatious advances — at least for the time of your…
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