Stephan Grundy

Stephan Scott Grundy
Born	Stephan Scott Grundy 1967 New York, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Other names	Kveldulf Gundarsson
Alma mater	University College Cork
Occupation	Professor
Known for	Germanic Neopaganism
Spouse(s)	Melodi Grundy (Since July 1, 1994)

Stephan Scott Grundy (born 1967), in New York, United States), commonly known as Stephan Grundy, and also known by the pen-name Kveldulf Gundarsson, is an American author, scholar, goði and proponent of Asatru. Grundy grew up in Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas. He now lives in Shinrone, Offaly, Ireland. He has over two dozen published books and a number of published papers. He is best known for his modern adaptations of legendary sagas and also a non-fiction writer on Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, and Germanic neopaganism.

Grundy began working on his first complete novel during his first year at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he was studying English and German philology. Originally, the novel was intended to be based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, but Grundy was convinced by his professor Dr. Stephen Flowers (author of numerous widely respected works about Germanic history and magic) that the Nibelung legend would be a more appropriate basis for a first novel.

Grundy wrote most of the novel in a dormitory at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he spent one year as an exchange student. He also spent a year as an exchange student in Bonn, Germany - virtually at the foot of the Drachenberg - spending some of his time on research for his novel (which also led him all across Scandinavia). Rhinegold — a retelling of the entire Sigurð cyclededicated to, among others, Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien — came out in 1994, and quickly developed into an international best-seller. In 1995, Grundy received his PhD from the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge with a dissertation on Odin: "The Cult of Óðinn: God of Death?".

...
Wikipedia