The real story of Ragnar 'Lothbrok' right out of the Danish Histories! He sails halfway round the known world to slay a fire breathing dragon for the hand of Princess Aslaug. The Saga of Ragnar 'Lothbrok' Sigurdson is about King Ragnar Lothbrok of...
PROLOGUE (From The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus):
CHAPTER ZERO POINT TWO
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PRINCE HRAERIK'S AMLETH (HAMLET) (Circa 500 AD)
"Saxo has placed the 'Amleth' tale here in Books 3 and 4 of his histories, perhaps thinking that his Erik Disertus (Bragi) character in his following Book 5 was the original writer of the tale of 'Amleth, Prince of Denmark'. I suspect, however, that this Erik Bragi 'the Old' had learned of the Tale of Lucius Junius Brutus from the Romans of Constantinople and wrote Amleth based on that ancient tale from the founding of Rome and from his own personal experience with the 'Mad' Prince Bjorn 'of the Barrows' in Uppsala Sweden."
Brian Howard Seibert
BASED UPON SAXO'S BOOK THREE:
THE SAGA OF AMLETH, PRINCE OF DENMARK (TBA, ORIGINAL BELOW):
(Circa 500 AD)There were two princes called Horwendil and Feng, whose father Gerwendil had been governor of the Jutes in Aar, and they were appointed in his place by King Rorik of Denmark to defend Jutland. But Prince Horwendil held the monarchy for three years, and then, to win the height of glory, devoted himself to roving. Then Koller, King of Thule, roving in rivalry of his great deeds and renown, deemed it would be a handsome deed if by his greater strength in arms he could bedim the far-famed glory of the rover; and cruising about the sea, he watched for Horwendil's fleet and came up upon it. There was an island lying near Jutland called Samso, which each of the rovers, bringing his ships up on either side, was holding. The captains were tempted by the pleasant look of the beach, and the comeliness of the shores led them to look through the interior of the springtide woods, to go through the glades, and roam over the sequestered forests. It was there that the advance of Koller and Horwendil brought them face to face without any witness. Prince Horwendil addressed the king first, "By what weapons would you prefer to duel?"
"Sword and buckler will do," King Koller replied. "But since the issue remains in doubt, we must both agree to properly build a howe in the true Aesir fashion to house the bones of the one who is slain."
"I fully concur with that," Horwendil agreed.
After mutually pledging their words to this term, they began the battle. They fought back and forth, exchanging blows for a time, but Horwendil, in his great ardour, felt berserk rage overtake his body, and he knew no steel could bite him in that state, so he tossed his shield out into the woods and he grasped his sword with both hands and rained blows upon Koller's shield and destroyed it, and then hewed off his foot as his shield still remained and, when Koller fell, he drove his sword through him and pinned him lifeless to the ground. Then, not to fail of his compact, he buried him royally, gave him a howe of lordly make and pompous obsequies that Samso became famous for. King Koller's sister, Shield-Maiden Princess Sela, was a skilled warrior who had been roving in Denmark nearby. When she heard that her brother had fallen, she sailed straightaway to the Isle of Samso and attacked the prince with her fleet. They fought a sea battle just off the Isle and Prince Horwendil flew into another berserk rage and cleared her shieldship's deck of all its men and he slew her just before the mast. He had his men erect a howe for her as well, right next to Koll's, and the island became famous for holmgangers on both land and water.
