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New Release: War and Solace – Edale Lane

September 23, 2023 by scott

QSFer Edale Lane has a new FF historical viking romance out, Tales from Norvegr book 3: War and Solace. A battle-hardened shieldmaiden. A pacifist healer. Can the two find love amid the chaos of war? From Edale Lane, the award-winning, best-selling author of Sigrid & Elyn, comes a new Tale from Norgevr! Tyrdis is a stalwart warrior raised to value honor, courage, and military prowess. When a traumatic injury renders the powerful protector helpless, she depends on the lovely, tender-hearted Adelle to restore her from the brink of death. Is it merely gratitude or true love that draws Tyrdis to … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Sigrid & Elyn – Edale Lane

October 19, 2022 by scott

Edale Lane has a new FF alt history mystery romance book out: Sigrid & Elyn. Attracted by passion, repelled by war. Can two shieldmaidens navigate battlegrounds of the sword and the heart? Pre-Viking Scandinavia. Sigrid the Valiant is legendary throughout the kingdoms of Norvegr, along with her twin brother, for their many heroic deeds, but her heart has not found a home. Now, racing on the heels of their father’s murder, a neighboring kingdom’s raids threaten to cause an all-out war. Elyn is a young shieldmaiden with a score to settle, fighting her own insecurities along with enemies who threaten … Read more

Let’s Hear It for Queer Vikings!

May 10, 2022 by scott

The Vikings: for most of us, they’re the peak of cis-het masculinity. But increasingly, research is showing that this simply wasn’t the case. I’m a Viking historian. I study queerness and gender in the Viking Age, and how those ideas have been weaponised by white supremacy in the last 200 years. The Vikings were the people who lived in Scandinavia around 700-1100 AD. They’re most famous for raiding, trading, and exploring throughout Europe and beyond: as far east as Russia, as south as Turkey, as north as Iceland and as west as Newfoundland, Canada. By the end of the Viking … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Viking Quest – Edale Lane

July 17, 2021 by scott

QSFer Edale Lane has a new FF historical fantasy out (bi, lesbian): Viking Quest. When secrets and lies threaten the throne, can a fierce champion tame her passion in time to stop a cruel enemy’s ruthless march? Jutland, Early 11th Century. Viking Warrior Princess Lena craves revenge. Hunting a killer after her husband is brutally slain, she discovers a shadowy traitor is at play behind the scenes, working to disrupt the balance of power. But she places her need for vengeance on hold when the king falls gravely ill, and sails out along with the pretty slave she rescued to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Viking Quest – Edale Lane

June 28, 2021 by scott

QSFer Edale Lane has a new FF historical fantasy romance out: Viking Quest. The toughest battles are waged within. Lena, a Viking warrior-woman, led alongside her husband the prince until he was murdered. With her world turned upside down, she sets out to wield justice against all involved in his assassination, but the king’s illness requires her to embark on a mission to find a hermit monk who is said to work healing miracles. Caitlin had been kidnapped from her home in Eire and sold into slavery. She prayed for a means of escape, and in stormed her avenging angel … Read more

Was This Viking Warrior Gender Fluid?

October 27, 2020 by scott

An ancient Viking warrior who was given a hero’s burial may have been “transgender, non-binary or gender fluid”, according to researchers. Three years ago, the ornately dressed remains of a high-status Viking warrior from the mid-900s were discovered alongside swords, spears and two slaughtered horses in Birka, Sweden. Following studies, it was assumed that the remains of the Viking warrior were those of a female – a finding that threw into question a once commonly-accepted view that Vikings ascribed to traditional gender roles. Now, three years on, scholars are questioning whether the remains could actually have been those of a … Read more

Viking Laid to rest for Likely “Mirror Afterlife”

September 4, 2020 by scott

Archaeologists in Norway have unearthed the 1,100-year-old grave of a Viking warrior, whose steel sword was placed in an unusual spot: on his left side. Though the sword’s sinistral position is still somewhat perplexing, one theory is that the Vikings perceived the afterlife to be a mirror image of the real world, so whoever buried this warrior may have been accounting for that, said Raymond Sauvage, the excavation’s project manager and an archaeologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) University Museum. According to that theory, the warrior would have been left-handed and worn the sword at his … Read more