Showing posts with label Vikings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vikings. Show all posts
Thursday, June 6, 2024

The 13th Warrior in the House, with Rogues

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You think upon what is to come, and imagine fearsome things that would stop the blood of any man. Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by kno...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

A few updates and a space Viking

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My friend Tom Barber bought a machine that transfers 35mm slides onto his computer, allowing him to convert his artwork to a digital format....
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Friday, January 12, 2024

Going Viking at DMR Books

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No, not looting and plundering Dave Ritzlin's book hoard, but do have a new post up on his blog:  A Deep Cut of Adventure: The Saga of S...
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Thursday, March 2, 2023

Viking and dark age art, Tom Barber

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Some cool images by the great  Tom Barber, posted here with his permission. All painted and sold in the dim past, I am told. Says Tom, It w...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Rhyme of the Viking Path, Robert E. Howard

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Art by Tom Barber. Reading the Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 2 (1930-1932), and encountered this poem Howard fired off in a l...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

War of the Gods!

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I hadn't read War of the Gods  for the better part of 20 years, and a recent re-read confirmed it's a pretty darned good book. My so...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

2021 in review

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The end of the year is a time for reflection, and so here I offer up a look back on a swordly-and-sorcerous 2021.   2021 in hindsight felt a...
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Friday, December 17, 2021

Old Norse Saga part deux: I missed an opportunity to plug Steve Tompkins

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With a few more days of separation from my recent DMR Books blog post, I realize I missed an opportunity to plug this wonderful essay by the...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

(Not) Lost in Translation: The Influence of Old Norse Saga and Myth on Robert E. Howard and Sword-and-Sorcery

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My latest essay has been published on the fine blog of DMR Books. Check it out here . Norse Saga was hard to access back in the day for obvi...
Saturday, December 4, 2021

Whetstone #4 is available (free sword-and-sorcery!), plus Viking Adventures

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Free sword-and-sorcery, you say? Whetstone , a new amateur digital magazine devoted to short works (2,500 words maximum) of sword-and-sorcer...
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Friday, July 30, 2021

Sword-and-sorcery news and happenings

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Some news, happenings and noteworthy occurrences heard on the sword-and-sorcery trail. DMR Books to publish Viking Adventures in August. Ju...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

The Long Ships, Frans Bengtsson (or, what a year was 1954)

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I have this very edition. I’m not sure what was in the water in 1954, but can we have a little bit more of that, please? That fabled year ...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

A review of Tom Shippey’s Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings

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The man, the myth... Tom Shippey As a Professor Emeritus of Saint Louis University, Tom Shippey understands the current trends shaping histo...
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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Halls of Valhalla, Judas Priest

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This one is worth a listen (he says, in understated fashion): Fierce is the gale From the north sea We drink and rejoice from the ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

COVID-19 diaries and Haggard’s The Wanderer’s Necklace

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Yes my work desk is a bar. First world problem. It has been an interesting last couple weeks living in the shadow of COVID-19. My compan...
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Friday, July 12, 2019

Haakon: The Golden Ax, a review

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No man could defeat him. No woman could resist him. Alas, I had high hopes for this one, being a sucker for all things Viking fantasy...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

A Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore Score

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Brick and mortar bookstores are as rare as hen’s teeth these days, it seems, and that’s a shame. I enjoy the instantaneous convenience an...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Six Sought Adventure: A Half-Dozen Swords And Sorcery Short Stories Worth Your Summer Reading Time

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I’ve always enjoyed fantasy fiction in the short form. In an age when a typical series stretches seven-plus doorstopper sized volumes with...
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Sunday, June 3, 2012

The Dragon Lord by David Drake, a review

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Some twenty years before TheWarlord Chronicles , a grim and gritty take on the Arthurian mythos by historical fiction author Bernard Cor...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Children of Odin by Padraic Colum, a review

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In his “Introduction to The Elder Edda” (from The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun ), J.R.R. Tolkien writes of the broad, multi-general appeal ...
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