by Jay Batista | Nov 27, 2019 | Historical Fantasy
Odin had many children but the most widely known was Thor the strongest of all the Aesir gods and almighty protector of humanity who wielded a magical, mountain-crushing hammer named Mjolnir. The son of the Giantess Fjörgyn, Thor is the god of thunder, lightning,...
by Jay Batista | Nov 21, 2019 | Historical Fantasy, History
Continued from the previous post… Odin speaks in poems, sometimes quite cryptically, and the ability to compose poetry is a gift he grants at his pleasure. In a grand adventure, he stole the mead of poetry from the giants, a magical drink that imparted the...
by Jay Batista | Nov 18, 2019 | Historical Fantasy
“When he sat with his friends, he gladdened the spirits of all of them, but when he was at war, his demeanor was terrifyingly grim.” Odin was a widely revered god in Germanic and Norse mythology, known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Wōdan, and in...
by Jay Batista | Nov 12, 2019 | Historical Fantasy
The Forerunner Saga assumes that readers have a basic knowledge of the pagan gods of Norse mythology. In order to provide some background, this blog will cover the key gods of the Norse pantheon, especially those that play a role in the continuing tales of the Agneson...
by Jay Batista | Nov 1, 2019 | Historical Fantasy
Jormander the Skald is a chief character in my Forerunner Series, adventuring with Karl Alfenson and his nephew Thorfinn and entertaining his mates aboard their ship. But what is a skald? Skald means poet in old Norse and is the term used for courtly bards who...
