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 ...

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 ...

When we think about Norse Mythology, it can be difficult to shake ... The Poetic Edda is an ancient collection of Old Norse narrative poems in alliterative verse. A must-read for academics and ...

Anybody who can train cats to pull a chariot has to be badass. One of things about the Norse gods is that everything ends very badly. It all ends in something called Ragnarök, which is the end of ...

As we filmed, we were keen to evoke the realm of Norse Gods - of Odin and Thor, and were able to weave in links between Norse mythology and the nature. The sacred tree Yggdrasil was said to be the ...