Glory-bound: A a speculative account of the battle at tollense

This thesis is a work of speculative historical fiction that seeks to provide a narrative explanation for the presence of Nordic Bronze Age artifacts and human remains buried under the banks of the Tollense River in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The story is told through the eyes of Urik, a well-traveled mercenary in an ancient army, and chronicles the gathering, marching, and politicking that might have preceded the battle theorized to have taken place beside the Tollense in or around 1250 B.C.E. Utilizing current archeological research, the author constructed a work of fiction that attempts to humanize people of the ancient past while remaining faithful to current scholarship on the Nordic Bronze Age and the Tollense Valley Battlefield.