Ron Altmann

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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Volsungasaga, a compilation of legends about Sigurd the dragon slayer written in the 1200's, begins with a one page history of his great-grandfather Sigi. Little is recorded about this ancestor of the greatest family of Norse heroes, who simply is id...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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The climax of the Norse Volsungasaga is the story of Sigrd, the son born of Sigmund after his death. The saga writes “when folk tell of all the mightiest champions, and the noblest chiefs, then ever is he named the foremost.” Sigrd revenges his s...

• Oct-2012
• / Literary
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The heart of the Norse Volsungasaga is the story of the cruel betrayal of Volsung and his sons, the grisly revenge worked by the surviving twins Signy and Sigmund, the tragic deaths of Sigmund?s sons, and Sigmund?s fall in a hopeless battle. Set in t...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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The Norse Volsungasaga states that Rerir, great-grandfather of Sigrd the dragon killer, was a “king of Hunland”. These references in Norse heroic legend to the Huns are among the very few that depict Huns in a favorable light. Rerir expands the s...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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Civil war surged across Iceland in the first half of the thirteenth century. In addition to land and sea battles, civic leaders were assassinated and gangs fired homes with families inside. As violence subsided an unknown author sat down to write abo...

• Nov-2016
• / Historical
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We know all too well the sorry history of the decline and fall of the “eternal” city of Rome. Sometimes we forget that Romans of the time did not “know” this final outcome. Some were complacent, some were connivers, some were downright corrup...

• Mar-2018
• / Historical
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What frosts, floods, and the flux don’t fell are swept away when armies cross the land every summer. Romans are gone. New masters claim crumbling cities they cannot maintain, valuing only the walls behind which they shelter from their kin, contrivi...

• Apr-2022
• / General Fiction
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The Covid pandemic found many people locked in places and conditions unfamiliar, but why should a summer of enforced isolation mean anything special for an old bachelor hermit who never goes anywhere and never does anything unusual? Why should it imp...