Ram's Blog

Harald Harðráði is a real person who appears in several historical traditions and languages: the Icelandic Heimskringla; the East Slavic T...

   Harald It all started with a woman, because, of course it did. Olof of Sweden had a daughter of marriageable age, Ingegerd. My half-b...

  Harald So there you have it, my two most significant father figures; my half-brother and predecessor as King, and my future father-in-...

  Harald I was but a boy when I left home. I thought I was a man, but I was 15 years old, so what did I know. I lived in Ringerike, the ...

  Tale of Bygone Years While Yaroslav was still at Novgorod, news came to him that the Pechenegs were besieging Kiev. He then collected a ...

  Heimskringla Along the shore the cool shower shoved the black prow of the warship   strongly, and the shielded vessels splendidly ...

   Chronographia The Guardian of the Orphans was banished to the monastery of Monobatae. John was blinded in prison on the orders of M...

  Heimskringla The oaken keel carved westward the climbing water from Garðar. After that all the Svíar aided you, bold land-ruler. ...

   Heimskringla King Haraldr had a market town built east in Oslofjord , and often stayed there, for it was a good place for getting sup...

Tale of Bygone Years Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with these words: “...

  Harald Once you get a taste for Viking cruises you can’t really kick it. Get together with 50 or so of your best buds, sail someplace ne...

  Harald Arctic noon dusk, on the beach of a calm fjord, two men recite poetry, call and refrain, over the still waters and beneath the lo...