Linnea Hartsuyker

Linnea Hartsuyker is an American novelist born in 1978 in Los Angeles, California, known for The Golden Wolf Saga, a historical fiction trilogy set during the Viking-age unification of Norway. Published by HarperCollins and drawing on the Icelandic sagas, the series began with The Half-Drowned King (2017), following the warrior Ragnvald and his sister Svanhild through political intrigue, betrayal, and warfare as Norway's first king, Harald Fairhair, rises to power, and continued through The Sea Queen and The Golden Wolf. Critics have compared the trilogy's blend of visceral battle detail and character-driven drama to Game of Thrones and Outlander. Hartsuyker's fiction is grounded in historical research into ninth-century Scandinavian politics and legend, reimagining saga source material as sweeping multi-generational historical drama.