This story shall also be told.

Along with a foreword by Peter Bergting, The Untold Saga started off the 2012 compilation book The Dark and Hairy Annals of Birger Barbaren, telling us almost all we need to know about Bernard's character background. (There's also the small matter of the fate of his mom, but we'll get back to that bit later.)

Of course it's all one big parody of Conan's background in Conan the Barbarian (1982), which should be fairly obvious to anyone who's watched that movie.

Apologies for the crappy joke in the second to last panel – the original didn't translate well. In Swedish, ”kung” = king and ”tung” = heavy. So she said something about him being…

Shoutout: Some anon made a scanlation of The Untold Saga and posted it on 4chan. I took some inspiration to the above translation from that one so – thanks, anon!

The Dark and Hairy Annals of Birger Barbaren