God of Wednesday

Freydis Eiriksdottir is set to become America's favorite "real valkyrie," thanks to Netflix's "Vikings: Valhalla....

I get seasick. Really seasick. So to write about sailing a Viking ship, as I've done extensively in my new book, The Real Valkyrie , a...

What were Viking women like? Were they really as tough and macho as Lathgertha in the History Channel's "Vikings" series? ...

Iceland is the hot place to go these days (pun intended). Every week, it seems, I hear from someone who just "did" the land...

In 982 Eirik the Red discovered Greenland, according to the Icelandic sagas. The Viking colony there lasted 400 years, until 1408, when a ...

Monday was the official publication date of my young adult novel The Saga of Gudrid the Far-Traveler . It's been a long time coming. ...

As I wrote last week, I did much of the research for my new novel, The Saga of Gudrid the Far-Traveler , several years ago when I was writ...

Last week I celebrated the publication of my first young adult novel, The Saga of Gudrid the Far-Traveler . If you read this blog regula...

“Well-written, thoroughly researched and adventure-filled, this story of a determined and very human young woman is timeless.” – Kirkus R...

Tomorrow, October 9, is Leif Eiriksson Day, when people of Scandinavian heritage and Viking enthusiasts like me celebrate the fact that th...