THE VARANGIANS (This Series Has Been Retired)
GO TO THE VARANGIANS / UKRAINIANS Book Series Above For Updated SAGAS
This Book Series Has Been Retired Due To The Illegal and Dispicable Russian Attack Upon Ukraine
All References to Rus’ Have Been Changed to Hraes’ to Show The Original Proper Source And Spelling
This Has Been Done to Ensure All Know That Ukraine Founded Hraes’, not Russia
Hraes’ (Rus’) Was Founded by Danes and Slavs 400 Years Before Muscovite Rus’ Even Existed
(THE NOT SO LYING SAGAS OF DENMARK)
BOOK ONE
“THE SAGA OF HRAERIK ‘BRAGI’ HRAEGUNARSON”
A Novel By Brian Howard Seibert
© Copyright by Brian Howard Seibert
1984 Kelowna, B.C.
Book One of the five book Varangians Series attempts to place Book Five of the The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticaus (c. 1200) into its proper chronological location in history. In 1984 when I first started the book I had placed the main character, Erik’s/Hraerik’s birth at 800 CE, but have since revised it to 810 to better fit with the timelines of the following books in the series. Saxo had placed it at the time of Christ’s birth, perhaps so the Peace of Frodi corresponded to the Pax Romana. Later experts seem to have placed the story at about 400 CE to correspond with the arrival of the Huns on the European scene, however, when Atilla was driven back to Asia, the Huns didn’t just disappear. They joined the Khazar Empire north of the Caspian Sea and helped the Khazars control the western trade of the Silk Road.
So when Vikings/Varangians started their eighth century incursions into the waterways of present day Russia, King Frodi and his foremost man, Hraerik Hraegunarson, ran smack dab into the Khazar Kaganate that was controlling Silk Road trade there.
Book One, Hraerik’s Saga Bragi, interprets Book Five of Saxo’s work and attempts to illuminate the origins of the name Rus’ and how it evolved in ninth century Russia.
This Book is a Work in Progress but is in its Final Draft. Hraerik ‘Bragi’ Hraegunarson was a Viking and some descriptions may be sexually explicit or violent due to the nature of Viking behavior. Below is a Table of Contents of his book and Drop Down Menus for the Final Draft Chapters of his story. Please feel free to give the book a read and perhaps comments through this website. During this time of Pandemic, it is a living document and future chapters will respect valid critiques where possible. NSA may note that this Book Series is attempting to re-write Danish History as it actually occurred and a similar re-write of American History shall soon be available as well.
THE VARANGIANS
BOOK ONE
THE SAGA OF HRAERIK ‘BRAGI’ HRAEGUNARSON
— PRINCE RURIK OF NOVGOROD –
— PRINCE ERIK ‘BRAGI THE OLD’ BODDASON OF NORWAY —
A Novel By
Brian Howard Seibert
Kelowna, B.C.
1984
Note: This website is about Vikings and Varangians and the way they lived over a thousand years ago. The content is as explicit as Vikings of that time were and scenes of violence and sexuality are depicted without reservation or apology. Reader discretion is advised.
THE SAGA OF HRAERIK ‘BRAGI’ HRAEGUNARSON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hraerik Hraegunarson – Born circa 810 AD
Chapter 1 : The Forging of Tyrfingr (c. 828) Page 5
Chapter 2 : A Fistful of Luck (c. 828) Page 23
Chapter 3 : The Winning of Fair Faxi (c. 828) Page 39
Chapter 4 : The Northern Way (c. 828) Page 58
Chapter 5 : Return to Gotar’s Hall (c. 829) Page 84
Chapter 6 : Visit at Hraegunarstead (c. 829) Page 93
Chapter 7 : The Slaughter of Oddi (c. 829) Page 110
Chapter 8 : Landing at Liere (c. 829) Page 124
Chapter 9 : Confrontation with Grep (c. 829) Page 136
Chapter 10 : The Hand of Gunwar (c. 829) Page 153
Chapter 11 : Battle Upon the Ice (c. 829) Page 163
Chapter 12 : The Rebirth of Frodi (c.829) Page 175
Chapter 13 : The Winning of Alfhild (c. 830) Page 185
Chapter 14 : Subjugating the Sclavs (c. 831) Page 205
Chapter 15 : Fate of Gotar (c. 831) Page 221
Chapter 16 : The Khazars (c. 831) Page 230
Chapter 17 : Dirge of Alfgeir (c. 831) Page 239
Chapter 18 : Sea of Corpses (c. 831) Page 254
Chapter 19 : Brother Gregory (c. 831) Page 264
Chapter 20 : The Khazar War (c. 831) Page 271
Chapter 21 : The Southern Way (c. 832) Page 280
Chapter 22 : Trading with the Greeks (c. 833) Page 293
Chapter 23 : Trading with the Arabs (c. 834) Page 308
Chapter 24 : Gardariki; Hraerik’s Keep (c. 835) Page 328
Chapter 25 : The Building of Sarkel (c. 836) Page 338
Chapter 26 : The Nor’Way Revisited (c. 837) Page 346
Chapter 27 : Conflict with the Khazars (c. 838) Page 367
Chapter 28 : The Battle of Sarkel (c. 838) Page 377
Chapter 29 : The Secret Khazars (c. 839) Page 396
Chapter 30 : Escape at Ingleheim (c. 842) Page 407
Chapter 31 : The Fate of Gardariki (c. 844) Page 413
Chapter 32 : Bragi the Old (c. 844) Page 424
Chapter 33 : Brother Gregory’s Baby/Sack of Paris (c. 844/845) Page 441
Chapter 34 : The Battle of the Goths and the Huns (c. 846) Page 451
Postscript : Amleth : The Origins of Hamlet Page 478
Appendix A : Glossary of Terms Page 481
Appendix B : Map of Eastern Europe of the Ninth Century
© Copyright by Brian Howard Seibert
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information or storage retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.
The author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to the following works, upon which he has based much of his research and a great deal of his writing:
Saxo Grammaticus. The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus. Denmark, c.1200. As translated by Oliver Elton, B.A. London, 1893, with consideration toward the translation by Peter Fisher. Cambridge, 1979.
Author unknown. Arrow-Odd: A Medieval Novel. Iceland, c.1200. As translated by Paul Edwards and Hermann Palsson. New York, 1970.
Author unknown. The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (Hervor’s Saga). Iceland, c.1200. As translated by Christopher Tolkien. Oxford, 1960.
Vernadsky, George. The Origins of Russia. Oxford, 1959.
Pritsak, Omeljan. The Origin of Rus’. Cambridge, Mass., 1981.
Davidson, H.R. Ellis. The Viking Road to Byzantium. London, 1976.
Dunlop, D.M. The History of the Jewish Khazars. New York, 1967.
Author unknown. Gautrek’s Saga. Iceland, c.1200. Translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards. Middlesex, 1976.
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