Ragnarsdatter

About the Book

In the U.S. of 1939-40, Gloria Ragnarsdatter becomes a high school Mary Magdalen.  Her attention roves from her brassy self, the family she disdains, and the school she hates but uses for amorous courses, to a new way of loving that engages her as the country is drawn into war.

About the Author

Richard M. Loomis has published several translations of medieval Welsh literature. Available from Xlibris are novels he has written in the new millennium: The Song of Giraldus presents the medieval Welsh historian, Giraldus Cambrensis, as narrator and protagonist of his own story. Ragnarsdatter, set in America at the beginning of World War II, traces the coming of age of Gloria Ragnarsdatter, who learns the ways of love on her way through high school. New House offers documents on an imaginary monastery in Wales, including poems, tales, and journals, together with an essay on the fifteenth-century Welsh poet, Guto’r Glyn.