Stephan Scott Grundy (June 28, 1967 – September 29, 2021),[1][2] also known by the pen-name Kveldulf Gundarsson, was an American author, scholar, goði and proponent of Asatru.
Grundy was born in New York and grew up in Dallas,[2] where he studied English and German philology at Southern Methodist University.
He is cited by other writers on Germanic paganism inside and outside academia, for example as Grundy by Jenny Blain in her discussion of the social role of seiðr in Iceland,[6] also as Grundy by Julia Bolton Holloway on pagan priestesses,[7] and by Charlotte Hardman and Graham Harvey in their survey of neo-paganism for editing Our Troth as well as having "clarified the group's objection to fascism and racism".
He also spent a year as an exchange student in Bonn, Germany – virtually at the foot of the Drachenfels - spending some of his time on research for his novel (which also led him all across Scandinavia).
Rhinegold – a retelling of the entire Sigurð cycle[9] dedicated to, among others, Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien – came out in 1994, and quickly developed into an international best-seller.