The Norse king's bridal

The volume gathers metrical translations from Danish and Old Norse together with original ballads, presenting mythic and folkloric material rendered into English verse. Rendered pieces range from grave-haunted dialogues over a cursed sword and a comic godly plot to recover a stolen hammer through disguise, to coastal and supernatural ballads about drowning, mermen, brides, vengeance, and fate. The translations aim to preserve original metres where possible, and the author's own compositions echo northern themes of destiny, memory, and ritual, moving between somber heroic narrative, lyrical mourning, and occasional playful mythic reimagining.