THE tales of which this volume presents the first English translation — though, as regards some of them, hardly the first English version — appear to have been collected about twenty or twenty-five ...
A 12th-century Norse saga tells of an invading army from the south razing a castle stronghold and throwing a dead body into the well to render the water undrinkable. Human remains believed to be those ...
King Sverre Sigurdsson had a tumultuous reign, but perhaps the darkest day for his stronghold came when he wasn’t even there. In 1197, while the King was wintering in Bergen, his enemies (a faction ...