With great mythology come heroic tales, and a recurring theme in such tales is love. Old Norse mythology is no different and contains many love stories, many of them tragic. Whether it’s Sigurd...
Category: Viking Society
We Investigate What The Vikings Ate & Drank on a Daily Basis
Perceptions of pillaging Vikings eating vast slabs and meat and drinking endless tankards of mead don’t make sense when you investigate how varied their meals were. Viking cooking used many...
Typically associated with Northern Europe, mainly Germany and Scandinavia, the legend of the Wild Hunt is a widely known folk tale of a ghostly undead figure leading a band of huntsmen and...
The first Germanic religion appeared in the third century AD during the “Migration Period” after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Scandinavians (also known as North Germanic) used Germanic...
Norse mythology originated with Germanic tribes from Northern Europe; on the other hand, Celtic mythology started with the Celts of Central Europe. The supreme god in Norse mythology was Odin,...
Norse mythology is on a bit of a high at the moment. Movies like the Thor Trilogy, the new release called The Northman, and shows like Vikings and The Last Kingdom have catapulted the world of the...