Harald Bluetooth, King of the Danes: Medieval Tales from the Bard Iron-Tongue

Harald Bluetooth, King of the Danes is the fourth tale collected in Medieval Tales from the Bard Iron-Tongue: Adventure, Battle, and Conversion. Each story transports the reader into the early Middle Ages, telling a unique and intriguing tale of Germanic tribal wars, personal ambitions, and evolving cultural and religious world-views.

Medieval Tales from the Bard Iron-Tongue: Adventure, Battle, and Conversion stands in the literary tradition of works like Beowulf and the Icelandic sagas or modern novels such as Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Tales, Stephen Lawhead's Byzantium, and Giles Kristian's Blood Eye.

In Harald Bluetooth, King of the Danes, Harald is the fourth generation in a line of powerful Danish kings. Within the span of only a few years, however, his entire family dies. As a new king, he must decide whether to continue the traditions of the past or turn his tribesmen toward a new future. This story tells that tale.

If you enjoy Harald Bluetooth, King of the Danes, then the remaining stories (Radbod, King of Frisia, Clovis, King of the Franks, Widukind, Lord of the Saxons, and The Life and Death of the Bard Iron-Tongue) will be of interest to you. The entire collection of tales is available in paperback, and the individual stories can be downloaded as ebooks.