Of Vikings and Huns

My next novel, The Valkyrie, features Attila the Hun as a fairly major character, and it takes place in the context of the changes to the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE. In other words, it takes place in what textbooks call the Migration Period. I think this might surprise some readers, given that it also features familiar mythological figures like Loki and Odin, who we tend to associate with what we sometimes call the Viking Age, a few centuries later and based in more northerly parts of Eu...