Valentin Per LindValentin Per Lind was born in 1959 and studied History and English Literature at Leicester University. He is passionately interested in the Greek Mystery Cults, Jewish Qabalah, Christian mysticism and the European Witch-Cult of the Middle Ages, entaiing some lengthy discussions in many of the poems' notes. From his earliest days, he thrilled to Beowulf, and its abiding image of the Norse hero battling monsters. At university, he was heavily influenced by the Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century as well as the later Victorian poets such as Tennyson, in particular Tennyson's Idylls of the King with its re-imagining of the Arthurian cycle. Combined, these influences engendered a love of poetry that endures to this day. Read More Read Less