By: Hugin Five hours ago I had a ‘blast from the past’ – a really valuable experience. It was finding a story I had written when I was ten, not so juvenile as to be laughable, but with that overriding air of innocence that unfortunately cannot be preserved for day-to-day adult living. Human kind…
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#2 Saga of King Hrolf Kraki: Part Two
By: Hugin This week the section of The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki is split into two sections. Once again, Hrolf plays a relatively minor part, the protagonist of the first section being Svipdag and the second being Bodvar. Svipdag was the son of a wealthy farmer, Svip, and his brothers were called Beygad…
#1 Saga of King Hrolf Kraki: Part One
By: Hugin Notable ancestry seems to have been obligatory for Norse heroes. The first time that I read The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, I was surprised that the first chapter introduces no one called Hrolf. Instead, it tells of how a good king, Halfdan, was murdered in cold blood by his brother, Frodi….