Personal appearance alert: Tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday, April 10 and 11, I will be – Lord willing – at the Rivercentre in St. Paul, participating in iFest Minnesota. I shall be selling edifying literature and generally spreading my special brand of sunshine.

There used to be an event called the Festival of Nations, held in St. Paul for many years. But Covid stifled it, and then they up and decided they wouldn’t hold it anymore. My Viking group had been longtime regulars, and we’ve missed it.

But now it has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes, in the form of iFest Minnesota. It will be a smaller event this year; I’ll be interested to see what’s survived.

I’ll even have a special offer for purchasers of the full Erling Saga.