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Lars Walker

Fantasy Author, Viking Lecturer

Lars Walker is a native of Kenyon, Minnesota and a graduate of Augsburg College, Minneapolis and the Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is editor of the Journal of the Georg Sverdrup Society, a Viking reenactor, Norwegian translator, and lecturer on Viking history.

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What About Vikings?

[Updated 2024] I included a short essay on the Vikings in this space when this site was first established. But the world moves on, and I find that piece (you can find it below this one) no longer addresses the current situation. My views have changed very little, but I think I need to explain […]

The Elder King – Excerpt

Buy the book here Part One: The Crying Stave Chapter I I recall it as the night of two visions. One vision was for the land, the other for me. Together they marked a turning place. And neither was for the better. We were feasting at Augvaldsness. If God blessed our efforts, […]

Troll Valley – Excerpt

Buy the book here PROLOGUE THE PRESENT. Shane Anderson woke up in a room he didn’t recognize. He had no idea where he was, and no idea who was with him. This was not unusual for him. Never before, however, had he awakened in an attic room (he could tell by the slanted ceiling) in […]

The Year of the Warrior – Excerpt

Buy the book here Maeve screamed when they raped her. She screamed all the time they were raping her, and they raped her many times, for she was young and fair. I tried to run to my sister, straining the chain they’d bound me to, until some merciful soul laid the hammer of his axe […]

Wolf Time – Excerpt

Buy the book here Odin’s Day Carl Martell was frightened. He locked his office door, creaked down the hallway, down the steps and out through the lobby of the Old Main building. The student essays on his desk would wait. Most of them would have to be scored on VQ’s anyway, and grading them under […]

What About Vikings [Original]

There are two things everyone is required to say nowadays when discussing the Vikings. My own opinion of these two statements above is that Number One has been repeated so many times that it shouldn’t be necessary anymore (though I’m constantly surprised at how many people don’t know about it). As to Number Two, in […]