title: The Raven's Table: Viking Stories
author: Christine Morgan
description: Christine Morgan grew up in the hot, sunny desert, and moved north to get away from it as soon as she could. Her degree in psychology has served her well, particularly in helping her to land a night-shift residential counseling gig, which allows her some writing time in the wee small hours. Twice married and twice divorced, she now lives with a roomie and a bunch of cats, and has a grown daughter of whom she's eternally proud. Her lifelong loves of language, history, mythology, and horror all intersect best in the Viking age. An avid reader and reviewer and crazy craft/cookie lady as well, she's currently delighting in adding her own little touch of weirdness to the Portland writing community.
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  Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald
  
  
    
    
  [Chapter I: Of Thorstein Egilson and His Kin  
    
  ](gunnlaug.htm1_0_2)[Chapter II: Of Thorstein's Dream  
    
  ](gunnlaug.htm1_0_3)[Chapter III: Of the Birth and Fostering of Helga
  
  
  the Fair  
    
  [Chapter IV: Of Gunnlaug Worm-Tongue and his Kin  
    
  ](gunnlaug.htm1_0_5)[Chapter V: Of Raven and his Kin  
    
  ](gunnlaug.htm1_0_6)[Chapter VI: How Helga was Vowed to Gunnlaug, and
  
  
  of Gunnlaug's Faring Abroad  
    
  [Chapter VII: Of Gunnlaug in the East and the West
  
  
    
    
  [Chapter VIII: Of Gunnlaug in Ireland  
    
  ](gunnlaug.htm1_0_9)[Chapter IX: Of the Quarrel between Gunnlaug and
  
  
  Raven before the Swedish King  
    
  [Chapter X: How Raven Came Home to Iceland, and
  
  
  Asked for Helga to Wife  
    
  [Chapter XI: Of How Gunnlaug Must Needs Abide Away
  
  
  From Iceland  
    
  [Chapter XII: Of Gunnlaug's Landing, and how he
  
  
  Found Helga Wedded to Raven  
    
  [Chapter XIII: Of the Winter-Wedding at Skaney,
  
  
  and how