The Norse Saga of Sigurd - Katherine Buel

THE NORSE SAGA OF SIGURD

**A bold and transportive retelling, The Norse Saga of Sigurd renders bright a world of witches, gods, and valkyries—a place of mythic terrors and searing beauty.**

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A widowed queen, heavy with child, seeks refuge in a foreign kingdom, and there her son is born: Sigurd, last of the Volsung line. But what seems a destiny of glorious revenge will not be so simple. The weavers of fate have many threads to spin, some beautiful … and some deadly. How brightly they rise from the harp-strings:

The Master of Masters.

The Glittering Heath.

The Nibelung Hoard.

Set against a backdrop of nuanced Viking culture, this first novella-length installment of Sigurd’s legend begins as a young man’s journey through a dangerous world, one peopled with kings and monsters, witches and giants. What begins here sets Sigurd on a course roiling with fate, will, and the machinations of gods and men—one that will shake his world to its very roots.

NOTES FROM THE WRITER’S DESK

The Norse Saga of Sigurd is a project I began as an MFA student, when my love of Norse mythology was first kindling. Now, this was before the Marvel movies. None of my fellow students had even heard of Odin, and no one at the time seemed to want a book like mine: a deep dive into the great Norse legend of Sigurd. I put it aside, but it always had a hook in my brain. So few know Sigurd, though many would recognize elements of his legend. Tolkien loved it and built much of The Lord of the Rings around it. Richard Wagner brought it to haunting life on stage, and many would recognize the chilling tones of “Flight of the Valkyries.” My original work sprawled across 600 pages. I cut and cut and cut (and rewrote almost every remaining word) until I was left with a series of novellas: each rich and intense, like a piece of dense chocolate cake. I am so glad it sat all those years because it’s now what it was always meant to be: lyrical, beautiful, dark and deeply mythic.