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Botanical Origins of Magical Ingredients

Posted on 02/23/201702/04/2017 By joabstieglitz No Comments on Botanical Origins of Magical Ingredients

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?

Posted on 02/21/201702/04/2017 By joabstieglitz No Comments on What is Glagolitic?

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

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Who Were the Varangians?

Posted on 02/16/201702/04/2017 By joabstieglitz No Comments on Who Were the Varangians?

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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