Gabriele C.

My blogs

The Lost Fort

About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Location	Germany
Introduction	I'm a writer of Historical Fiction and Fantasy living in Germany. I got a MA in Literature, Scandinavian Studies, Linguistics and History, I'm interested in Archaeology and everything Roman and Mediaeval, an avid reader, opera enthusiast, traveller with a liking for foreign languages and odd rocks, and photographer.
Interests	Ancient History, Dark Age History, Mediaeval History, Archaeology, Mediaeval Literature, Romans, Picts, Scots, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Merovingians, Mediaeval German Emperors, Feudalism, Hansa League, Writing, Opera, Books, Riding, Traveling, Photography, Geology
Favorite Movies	Lord of the Rings, The Thirteenth Warrior, Cyrano de Bergerac, Henry V, The Lion in Winter, Ladyhawke, Det sjunde inseglet
Favorite Music	Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioacchino Rossini, Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Héctor Berlioz, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Pjotr I. Tchaikovsky, Russian folk songs, (and more)
Favorite Books	Homer, Vergil, Livius, Ovid, Tacitus, Beowulf, Song of the Nibelungs, Song of Roland and other French epics, Icelandic sagas, George Eliot, Henry James, Fjodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Friedrich Schiller, Thomas Mann, Theodor Fontane, Honoré de Balzac, Halldór Laxness, Henrik Ibsen, Selma Lagerlöf, Victor Rydberg, Golo Mann, Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Umberto Eco, Jose Luis Borges, Rosemary Sutcliff, Dorothy Dunnett, Sharon Kay Penman, Colleen McCullough, Lois McMaster Bujold, C.S. Friedman, JRR Tolkien, Tad Williams, Guy Gavriel Kay, Steven Brust, GRR Martin, Bernard Cornwell, David Gemmell, RE Howard, Steven Erikson, Brent Weeks, Joe Abercrombie, Paul Kearney, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Robert Low, Harry Sidebottom, Terry Pratchett (and more)