A region of Asgard, Valhalla is the great hall of the slain in Norse mythology, where some warriors who have died a noble death in battle go after they are killed. Any criminal, wrongdoer, miscreant,...

Narfi is the Norse god of wrongdoing and the son of Loki and Sigyn. Narfi inherited many of his father's negative traits. He was known for his cunning and trickery, and he was destined to pay for the...

It's been almost 1,000 years since the Viking age, but modern-day polytheistic Norse pagans still practice and study the old texts. There aren't very many, but they exist. While numbers declined...

Elves inhabit two possible realms in Norse myth: Alfheim (or Álfheimr) and Svartalfheim. “Álfheim” means “Land of the Elves,” so it is undoubtedly an Elf realm. However, “Svartalfheim,”...

Yggdrasil is a huge and sacred ash tree according to Norse cosmology. It is the focal point of the Viking world, where the gods hold their daily "things" or parliamentary assemblies. The tree's...

In Norse Mythology, there is a primordial void referred to as Ginnungagap. From that primordial void, the tree Yggdrasil (or the world tree) and the two realms known as Niflheim and...