History isn’t just a list of dates and battles. It’s made up of real people and the stories they left behind. Even in a digital world, there’s still something powerful about a printed book that helps us connect with those who came before us.
The Norse by God book series brings these stories to light. Each volume blends solid research with compelling storytelling, making them accessible to both curious readers and seasoned scholars. These books are written by a team of faculty and student historians working together to make history feel alive.
We’re currently working on two sagas.
Queens of Rime and Mist: Royal Women of Medieval Scandinavia
From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth Tudor, ruling women of the past have enthralled readers with their singular achievements. Their deeds have proliferated in song and story for centuries. Yet when it comes to the lands of the frozen north, we have forgotten some of the forceful and formidable women who lived at the center of royal power. While princes would be born to the crown of their native lands, princesses and noblewomen would frequently travel from home to marry. In foreign courts with unfamiliar customs and languages, surrounded by strangers, they needed to rely upon their mettle and wit to thrive.
Queens possessed multiple types of power—they negotiated between their natal families and countries and their husbands, they waged war, commissioned manuscripts and translations of European literature, and they could support religious causes. Some of these women, like Margaret of Denmark, would eventually rule in their own right, while others like Agnes of Brandenberg held the thrones as regents for young sons and absent husbands. At times, they incited feuds among rival family members yet could also hold their kingdoms back from the brink of war. Exacerbated by harsh climates, civil wars, and epidemics, these women experienced the stark beauties of medieval life at the extremities of Europe.
Isles of the Same Sea: Journeys through the Viking Age and Beyond
Isles of the Same Sea: Journeys through the Viking Age and Beyond
Across the seas of the north —Norway’s fjords, Britain’s rivers, and Ireland’s bays— the Viking Age was one of travelers, traders, and voyagers. The people of medieval Scandinavia were far more than the violent marauders of modern-day pop culture. They were settlers, craftsmen, farmers, linguistic influencers, and storytellers. Their trade networks spanned international boundaries, from Constantinople to the Muslim Caliphates and the Roman Empire, and they became merchants of fur, amber, and silver. The lives of the Vikings that existed between the lines of feared accounts of British monks is revealed though the artifacts they left behind; path stones that allow us in modern times to trace their exploits across history. We can trace their stories through sagas, through graves, through ruined homesteads and buried treasure hoards.
In this book, we will take the hands, across the stones, of the individuals who led the way into unknown lands and endured the hardest trails of these Norse seafarers, ensuring the existence of their people will never be forgotten.