No definitive record of what happened to deceased Viking gods, goddesses, mortals, and animals exists in pre-Christian Scandinavian literature. However, plenty of unconfirmed but colorful rumors...
Category: Realms
In a nutshell, Asgard is the home of the Æsir Norse gods like Odin, Tyr, Thor, Freyja, and Loki. Vahalla is a hall inside Asgard for brave fallen Viking warriors awaiting Ragnarök. Asgard is a...
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,...
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...
Nidavellir (Niðavellir), also called Myrkheim (“Land of Darkness”), is the home of the dwarves in Norse cosmology. Svartalfheim (Svartálfheimr) also appears in some texts as the land of the...