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Released March 2019 -- In a land divided, Erling Skjalgsson rules the West-land of Norway in peace and justice. But a rumor is abroad in the land, songs and tales of a man of destiny coming from across the sea, a man who would be king. Can Erling keep a fractious alliance of chieftains together long enough to defend their freedoms from an ambitious princeling whose ruthlessness knows no limits, and who believes himself the instrument of God?
Meanwhile, Erling's priest, Father Ailill, must balance his clerical vows against his growing love for a woman on the run, a woman with a dark secret and a bizarre fate.
Meanwhile, in the mountains, the Elder King waits. He is ancient. He is wise. He is powerful. And he is entirely mad. In the face of his deadly plan for the whole world, bitter enemies must put aside their differences and make a last stand together.
I released several pages of The Elder King on my blog, so start reading there and pick it up with your Kindle tomorrow.
Viking Legacy is a groundbreaking book that makes two controversial claims. First, that the Icelandic sagas provide useful information that can be useful to historians, if handled with caution. Second, that we owe our western ideas of democracy at least as much to Viking legal tradition as to ancient Athens.
I might also mention that Erling Skjalgsson, the hero of my Viking novels, is a prominent character in this work. I first became acquainted with Prof. Titlestad though our mutual interest in this larger-than-life saga character.
In the near future, suicide is a constitutional right. Tom Galloway is an ordinary single father, just trying to keep his rebellious and depressed daughter from going to the Happy Endings Clinic. The last thing he needs is a ninth-century Viking time traveler dropping into his life. But Tom is about to embark on the adventure of his life. One that will change the world.
I originally wrote Death's Doors
The other is the worldwide expansion of Islam, particularly in Europe, but also in America.
Gene Veith says, "It’s suspenseful, exciting, and wildly imaginative, both in the author’s story telling and in the way it stimulates the reader’s imagination."
The Erling Skjalgsson Saga Continues with Hailstone MountainHailstone Mountain is an H. Rider Haggard-esque story, in which Erling is struck by a curse that could kill him slowly. In order to break the curse, he must sail north (along with Father Ailill, Lemming, and others) to confront the source of the magic face to face. Meanwhile, Lemming’s niece Freydis is kidnapped by her relatives from up in Halogaland, and it’s not a nice kind of family, so she must be rescued. And that sets off repercussions that could destroy the whole country. Erling must join forces with a bitter enemy to stave off a monstrous horror.
Get your copy through Amazon: Hailstone Mountain (The Erling Skjalgsson Saga)
"Lars Walker shows brilliance in taking us into the skulls and skins of those incredibly daring... men and women of the ancient world." - Hal G. P. Colebatch
Troll Valley: The Fairy Tale Your Grandparents Never Told You
Chris Anderson has everything. He’s the son of the richest family in town. He lives in a beautiful, loving home. He even has a fairy godmother.
Chris Anderson also has nothing. He was born with a deformed arm, and when he gets angry he sees visions that terrify him.
At the turn of the Twentieth Century, in a nation wrestling with faith and science, tradition and change, Chris will be forced to confront his own nature, and learn the meanings of freedom, love, and the grace of God.
Read excerpts at Brandywine Books
West Oversea: A Norse Saga of Mystery, Adventure and Faith--In the year 1001, King Olaf Trygvesson is dead, but his sister’s husband, Erling Skjalgsson, carries on his dream of a Christian Norway that preserves its traditional freedoms. Rather than do a dishonorable deed, Erling relinquishes his power and lands. He and his household board ships and sail west to find a new life with Leif Eriksson in Greenland. This voyage, though, will be longer and more dangerous than they ever imagined. It will take them to an unexplored country few Europeans had seen. Demonic forces will pursue them, but the greatest danger of all may be in a dark secret carried by Father Aillil, Erling’s Irish priest.
The Year of the Warrior--GOD WILLS IT!Ironically, though "Father" Aillil is as phony as a three-dollar psalm, he and he alone must convert a fiercely pagan people to the gentle teachings of Christ - and they don't want to hear about it. Nor do their "gods," who are all too real, and all too liable to do something horrible to those disturbing their divine peace.
It's going to take a miracle for Aillil to succeed, or even survive, but fortunately God (the one true God, not those pagan demon creatures) is on his side. Read an excerpt
Publisher's Note: Part of this novel was previously published as Erling's Word.
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Blood and Judgement--All Will Sverdrup wanted was to play Hamlet in an amateur production. He never counted on getting sucked back in time, into the body of the original, historical Hamlet in 6th Century Denmark.
Wolf Time--A DRAFT FROM THE PAST
Erling's Word-- "Many are the years and uncounted the miles since the White Northerners took us from our home in Connaught... And I, against all hope, have stood before kings. I have seen a saint made and had for a friend the greatest hero since Cu Chulainn..." His name is Ailill - liar, failed monk, impostor priest. Brought to Norway to serve the chieftain Erling Skjalgsson, he must wrestle with the old gods and his own God; with mortal men and the mysterious underground folk, in the turmoil of a nation being born. But the greatest enemy of all may be himself....
Lars Walker, author of historical fantasy and viking reenactor, is the subject of larswalker.com. You can write him directly at lars@larswalker.com. You may be able to reach him right now by commenting on his blog, Brandywine Books. Header photo of ships on the water by Marit Synnøve Vea.
