Tag: The Utgarda Trilogy

Reversing the Cataclysm: Book Three of the Thule Trilogy Has Been Released

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The final book in the Thule Trilogy and the Utgarda Series has been released! A Quest to Restore the Fate of Two Worlds When Anna Rykov pursued Brian Teplow, the spiritualist that her benefactor has spoken to before his death, to the world of Siashutara, she inadvertently entered the conflict between two warring alien species…

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Botanical Origins of Magical Ingredients

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In The Old Man’s Request: Book One of The Utgarda Trilogy, the protagonists find that they need to create a magic powder:

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What is Glagolitic?

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Anna Rykov is an expert in interpreting Glagolitic runes in The Utgarda Trilogy.

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Who Were the Varangians?

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The Varangians were the subject of Anna Rykov’s anthropological studies in The Utgarda Trilogy.  But the Varangians actually did exist.  The Varangians were Viking traders who travelled down the rivers of Russia and Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. The Viking protaginists depicted in Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead, or in the movie The…

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