Otto the Bloody

About this book

Short story about Otto the Great, (a.k.a. Otto the Bloody) a Germanic king, and his mad behavior on New Year’s Eve at the close of the first millennium... Tells how his pregnant wife died in the debacle, and how he roamed the countryside as a beggar for a time with his boil-inflicted infant son, before returning to his city and keep in the spring, a reformed man...