By Leonora Craig Cohen

Leonora Craig Cohen finished her Medieval Lit MSt at Oxford last year and is now doing various publishing internships. She once got into a spat with Iceland's only clown.

  1. How To Tell If You’re In a Viking Saga

    By Leonora Craig Cohen

    in How To Tell If You’re In a Novel

    Everyone around you is named Thorolf, except for Thorstein Cod-Biter, who lives over in the next valley. Many say he is part-troll. But they have learnt not to say it to his face.

    The current feud in which you are embroiled seems likely to be resolved by prodding a blindfolded horse off a cliff with poles. This horse is known for its malice.

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