According to myth, cave wyrms are terrifying creatures that live deep inside mountain caves, or sometimes in marshes and fens ...
This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...
A rumor has spread online for years that Vikings believed a goat whose udders produced an endless supply of beer awaited them ...
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 ...
Called 'Old Norse Sagas', these tales of heroes, warriors, epic adventures and amazing insights in to daily life all still seem highly relevant today. Written and narrated by Dr Janina Ramirez ...
In Norse mythology, the universe was divided into nine ... Hel was left in the icy realm of Niflheim, where old and sick men ...
But the true essence of the legend lies not in our sanitised representations of golden-haired women drifting regally through the skies on white horses, but in Old Norse mythology of the 13th ...
Along with the details found within Norwegian stave churches, rune stones provide some of the best evidence we have of the slow transition from belief in the old Norse Gods to the ‘new ...
Moments on sixth album Birna (named for a she-bear in old Norse mythology) are sparse and simple – but these compositions are as meticulously constructed as any modern prog opus. The old Nordic ...