ABOUT THE VIKING SAGAS

The Viking Sagas is a series of books that are based on the Icelandic royal sagas and several family sagas that takes place during the Viking Age on the testimony of the skalds (the kings royal poets), written down by the icelandic author Snorre Sturlasson (b.1179 d.1241 AD)

The Viking sagas book project was founded by author Thor Holvila due to that Norse history mainly remains unknown to a larger audience, since a large part has been previously untranslated from Icelandic and Norwegian language. 

The plot in the Icelandic sagas revolves either around a person or a family and contains no dates and very little information about parallel events. The work has therefore mainly been focused on research, translation and the time-consuming work of putting all the stories along a timeline. Something that would not have been possible without the great access of the internet  and modern up to date archaeology, etymology and dissertations on history.  

To that has been added the work of maps, illustrations and the presentation of the dramatic events in a narrative form that is as true as possible to the sources.

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The first book "The Battle of Hals" was published in 2023 and will be followed by "The Battle of Hedeby". The following books will then not necessarily be told in chronological order as there are over 300 years to be told and covered from the 9th to the 11th century .

 

The Viking Sagas is written and illustrated by author Thor Holvila. Thor has been borned in to Nordic history since childhood and has grown up on the west coast of Sweden and therefore knows by person many of the places where the stories took place. He has also has undertaken trips to Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Germany, Finland and England to acquire more knowledge by visiting the relevant locations in order to reproduce the action of the books as true as possible. Add to that Thor´s journeys at sea to personally get to know the landscape and the waterways of the historic persons for whom this was home.