Lars Walker is a native of Kenyon, Minnesota and a graduate of Augsburg College, Minneapolis. He has a Master's in Library & Information Science from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He grew up on a farm, and has worked as a crab meat packer in Alaska, a mail clerk, an administrative assistant, a radio announcer, and an academic librarian. He is editor of the Journal of the Georg Sverdrup Society, and is a Viking reenactor and Norwegian translator. He has renounced all claims to the throne of Norway. SEQUENCE OF ERLING SKJALGSSON NOVELS: 1. The Year of the Warrior (Double volume incorporating "Erling's Word") 2. West Oversea 3. Hailstone Mountain 4. The Elder King 5. King of Rogaland 6. The Baldur Game (coming 2024)