Silvia Pizarro McCants

Part One

Part One

Part One

I. The Man Beneath the Legend History remembers Ivar the Boneless as a creature of nightmare—a pagan berserker who was carried into battle on a shield, a shapeshifter, or a man cursed by brittle bones. The sagas have turned him into a figure of pure myth, a son of

I. The Man Beneath the Legend History remembers Ivar the Boneless as a creature of nightmare—a pagan berserker who was carried into battle on a shield, a shapeshifter, or a man cursed by brittle bones. The sagas have turned him into a figure of pure myth, a son of

I. The Man Beneath the Legend History has often confined William Wallace to the silhouette of a painted face and a roar before battle, a cinematic ghost charging in tartan against a tide of English armor. This image serves the myth, but it buries the man. What we know of