RE: Valhalla's Shipbuilder, and His Great Journey to Hivland By Which He Won His Place

Not quite ... I was reading Sherlock Holmes through -- all 60 stories -- by age 16, but I started with Norse myth around nine ... Tolkien and C.S. Lewis between there and my 20s... children's works, then adult ... so, Valhalla's Shipbuilder has a lot of ALL OF THAT... plus, I did a bit of extra research on Norse beliefs about the dead to fill that out... there are some historical references too ... Eric the Red, and Leif Ericsson... but the most important thing was at the very end of the last book I read in childhood ... the name of the couple that survives the end of days are Life and the Will to Live ... Lif and Lifthrasir. So, I started there ... suppose a small-scale Ragnorok... Lewis and Tolkien give us certain conflict elements that match .. brothers fighting brothers as the harbinger of the end and climate change trouble gives us a match there with older myths...

But this is also the story of Hive, and Dan's role in getting us here ... Justin Sun has his cameo, and China does too as the Great Dragon comparing with the World Serpent of Norse myth ... the "false sun" ... Stark and Eddin are fellow co-founders of Threespeak with Dan (Starkers and Eddie Spino), and they have that scene where they can watch what is going to happen on the "strange window" when "three speak." Also, Lifthrasir has her role because Dan's wife was instrumental in getting the initiative going ... so, you do sense the early 20th century reading I was doing, but also there are unique Hive-based elements!