
By year Fire Horse; by month Aquarius with a Taurus moon. Titles come and go—druid, witch, mystic, seiðr-worker, shaman—but the names I keep are simpler: husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, provider, friend. I claim my birthright as the Alaska Úlfhéðnar, descended from Jens Peterson of Bjergby, Denmark, and Maurice Ó Nuanáin of Lismore, Ireland. Among my elders a name follows me—Fjǫlkunnigr úlfr Norðrsins—the Mystical Wolf of the North.