Facebook Ainsley is a retired Old Norse Mythological teacher and avid storyteller. She lives with her husband in Winnipeg, MB, and has two adult sons and a granddaughter. Her book is a compilation of her notes, over years of studies, research and teaching. Her passion for the Old Norse tales has helped her bring the stories together into one book. A Viking Legend: The Descendants of Odin, is for anyone and everyone interested in Old Norse Mythological tales and she hopes that you enjoy the read. She completed a writing program with the Heartspace Transformative Writers, led by Joanne Klassen, where one of her stories was published in the Talespin anthology. She has written privately and for Icelandic newsletters, like the Logberg Heimskringla, The Icelandic Connection and Icelandic Roots. A Viking Legend: The Descendants of Odin is her first book.
Ainsley Bloomer
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A Viking Legend: The Descendants of Odin
This manuscript is a retelling of a mythological legend with information from The Edda, by Snorri Sturluson, edited and translated by Anthony Faulkes, from the Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Jesse Byock, from the poems of The Poetic Edda, unknown author/s, as translated by Carolyne Larrington, from the Saga of the Volsungs, unknown author/s, as translated by Jesse L. Byock, from “The Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok,” sourced from Adam Bremen and the Saxo Grammaticus, The Saga of the Volsungs and the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok, as translated by Jackson Crawford, from “The Fostering of Aslaug” by William Morris, a translation from “The Lay of Kraka,” and other sources. The original poems and stories are believed to have been memorized, sung, chanted, bantered, and recited in the Old Norse and Old Icelandic languages. The oral tradition of storytelling was practiced by the Nordic and Germanic tribes, including the Burgundians, Huns and Goths. As the nomadic families travelled and migrated, they took their stories, poems, and songs with them. For migrating Scandinavians, these stories, songs, and poems became a strong link that connected them to their past and to their homelands and were shared from descendant to descendant. After the migrating families had settled and lived in Iceland for a few hundred years, unknown scribes documented some of these stories, songs and poems onto vellum skins. With imagination and foresight, the author has woven together tales from the different sources, creating a story about a family dynasty, whose patriarch is Odin, the chief of the Old Norse Gods. In, “A Viking Legend: The Descendants of Odin,” Odin marries a human woman, named Katrin, and the stories of their descendants unfold throughout six generations of this family line, also known as the Wulfings, or the wolf clan. The ebook is available on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A paperback copy is available at Amazon, the Icelandic Heritage Museum in Gimli, and McNally Robinson in Winnipeg.
