The current publishers research suggests that the translator Olive Bray, a distinguished member of the Viking Society for Northern Research in London, came from a well-to-do English family and died at the age of 31 in 1909, the year after her monumental work appeared. Wolf Wickham, recognizing the value of Bray's translation, revised and published it in this new, user friendly form. Wolf has studied and worked for the restoration of primal Teutonic Heathenism since 2005, when he made an oath to dedicate himself to the advancement of the Northern Way.