![]() It includes a historical timeline of Viking history, complementary pictures, illustrations, and maps, and a bibliography. ![]() For the reader's convenience, the work is organized into chapters covering all aspects life: domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious. What were Viking families like? How were slaves treated? Were older people treated well, or regarded with contempt? Exactly how did they manage to travel from Baghdad to Greenland? Author Kirsten Wolf answers all of these questions and many more in this highly readable and informative resource volume, which will be a benefit and pleasure to the student and the general reader alike. This excellent and intimate study goes beyond the rumors of the fury of the Northmen, into the prosaic realities of the greater Scandinavian community, and is ideal for readers who want to discover the everyday details of living in this dynamic time and place. Though infamous for their violent marauding, Vikings were but one part of the complex Scandinavian culture from which they emerged. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In fact, stories where they aren't squick her badly, so don't expect to find abuse stories in her journal. Earth Fathers Are Weird Kindle Edition by Lyn Gala (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 502 ratings Part of: Earth Fathers (2 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Captain Maxwell Davis and his entire unit scrambled to engage alien ships over Iowa. In her worlds, tops and bottoms are all mature, consenting adults. Some of her stories focus on power exchange, bondage or bdsm. She prefers to focus on plot: mysteries and monsters and disasters, oh my, but sex can and does happen. She first cut her teeth on fanfic: gen, slash, het, and femslash. When she isn’t writing, Lyn Gala teaches in New Mexico. Books shelved as gay-science-fiction: Grown Men by Damon Suede, Seedy Business by Damon Suede, Earth Fathers Are Weird by Lyn Gala, To See the Sun by Kel. Her characters seek to better themselves and find the happy ending (or happier anyway), but it’s writing the struggle that inspires her muse. Even the purest heroes have pain and loss and darkness in their hearts, and that’s where she likes to find her stories. ![]() Westerns starring men with shady pasts gave way to science fiction with questionable protagonists which eventually gave in to any story with a morally ambiguous character. Lynsey "Lyn" Gala started writing in the back of her science notebook in third grade and hasn’t stopped since. ![]() ![]() ![]() She urged me to share it with the world - and alongside three other secret novels, with the support of readers worldwide it grew into the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. I started writing this in secret, as a novel just for my wife. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. ![]() The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. ![]() |