Voyage to the Farm

About the Book

The protagonist of Voyage to the Farm is Thorir Gunnarsson, a farmer of thirteenth-century Iceland, then losing its independence as a free commonwealth and becoming subject to Norway. Thorir’s boyhood dream of following his ancestors to Vinland gives way to defense of his farm, Thorisstadir, as his uncle trains him for leadership in the strife-torn land.

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.