Welcome to the Grim & Havelok Legend Website

     Running the gauntlet of time for more than a thousand years, with the aid of a countless number of skalds, minstrels, bards, and poets, whose names are now lost to us, the great legendary tale of Grim the fisher and Havelok the Dane survived and lives on. The legend lives on and even now truly rises anew, like some fabulous phoenix bird transformed and released, soaring up from that fiery deep and holy bed of ashes that we call our past. If one truly has the wings of the spirit and that goodly rare sense of insight to imagine such a wondrous sight of effortless spiraling upward phoenix flight within that marvel we call the mind, hearken to me, take heart and sound advice, and do not be afraid or surprised to also hear its piercing cry: Tis but a song and message for us all to truly awaken too, for it still has that vigour, vitality, and immortal magical gift to teach and charm and enchant be sure anew.

The legendary tale of Grim the fisherman and his foster-son, Havelok the Dane, features as being one of the earliest most delightful classic romances of antiquity. It has also been one of the most popular British folk-heroic legendary tales of all time, assuredly in a class with Robin Hood and King Arthur. However, there has been a great amount of background confusion, controversy, prejudice, and great conflict of opinion concerning the legend in recent centuries, with local and national historians, antiquaries, scholars, academics, and casual investigators and commentators, invariably persistently adding ever to the problem. Yet that has never prevented the story from appealing to authors and novelists on both sides of the Atlantic during the last century since the re-discovery of one of the long-lost Mediaeval English manuscripts in the 19th Century. The legendary tale has appeared in a number of different costumed disguised forms over the centuries and there still are quite a number of adapted differing abridgements and versions ever to contend with. Yet for all its period dressings and cosmetics, it essentially has always intrinsically had an important fundamental part and role to play in our lives and has been a favorite with audiences in Britain, particularly during the Middle Ages.
Confusion and controversy still evidently persists and reigns in some quarters on matters of dress code and on how one might best represent the legend in life's masquerade; it is a problem that may not be so easily addressed and solved overnight it is true. Although background confusion and uncertainty still currently prevails on these matters and in relation to the actual factual traditional basis for the legend, nevertheless, like all the truly immortal great classic worldly folk-heroic and heroine legendary tales, it still remains a cherished treasured part of our collective cultural heritage, inherited by us all.

        With the exciting new discovery of vitally important overlooked evidence unearthed now at last, and the re-publishing of the long-lost first classic English novel available to the world at large finally again, perhaps it is time for this traditional classic legend to rise in widespread popularity once more