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Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Across roughly the past decade, research on Old Norse mythology has exhibited a boom of interest in both folklore collected under the aegis of Romanticism and the perspectives and insights of today’s ...

From Wagner to William Morris in the late 19th century, via Tolkien’s dwarves and CS Lewis’s The Last Battle, through to last year’s controversial film The Northman, Scandinavian gods and heroes have ...

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Ve and Vili and Odin looked at each other and spoke of what was needful to do, there in the void of Ginnungagap. They spoke of the universe, and of life, and of the future. Odin and Ve and Vili killed ...

The religious authorities have for years refused to approve the organization Forn Sidr as a religious community, but in a new statement it appears as if they might be given the go ahead. In other ...

"Baldur is blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical," Mimir explains to Kratos and his son Atreus in 2018's God of War. Yet as soon as Sindri, the dwarven blacksmith, gave a ...