Viking-Era Marriage

A pleasingly domestic line in the saga I’m currently reading (which is mostly about war and killing).

Ráðahagr Áka stendr með miklum blóma.
—Jómsvíkinga Saga 17
Áka stands marriage with great bloom.”

That’s the kind of marriage to have. I hope Þórgunn (his wife) felt the same way about it.

a photo of red roses
image filched from Wikimedia

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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