The Viking Age was a time of conquest, exploration, and deep-rooted beliefs in the forces of nature and the divine. Among the many revered creatures in Norse mythology, wolves held... Yule in Viking Culture: A Winter Solstice Festi... ...
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"The origin of Runes is believed to have been created around 200 BC, the Nordic tribes of northern Europe devised these Rune Symbols to represent the forces of nature. It was believed that by picking the right Rune, the caster or wearer could harness the power the rune represented"....
(xxvii 27) “It is customary also to solemnize inUppsala, at nine-year intervals, a general feast of all the provinces ofSweden. …The sacrifice is of this nature: of every living thing that is male, they offer nine heads with the blood of which it is customary to placate gods of thi...
For years, I have been receiving questions like ‘What is the rune for Joy?’ or ‘What is the rune for Happiness?’. The point is, Norse runes aren’t ideograms. Normally, they do not stand for abstract notions like ‘happiness’ or ‘joy’. Neither are they logograms, that is, ...
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nature (snakes, metals, diseases, poisons, fire, etc.) that they would never harm Balder. All agreed that none of their kind would ever hurt or assist in hurting Balder. Thinking him invincible, the gods enjoyed themselves thereafter by using Balder as a target for knife-throwing and ...
It is generally agreed, however, that the main Norse gods come from two main clans, Æsir (who were associated with war and chaos) and Vanir (who were linked to fertility and nature). For a good insight into the complex, and often very confusing, Norse gods family tree that includes ...
The Vanir were originally nature deities associated with birth and fertility. They were on the losing side of the great war between the Aesir and the Vanir. What does the name Aesir mean? Aesir means "gods" in Old Norse. Old Norse was the languages of the Vikings. It is a North Germani...
24A rune stick—rúnarkefli—is perhaps the most commonly referenced medium for inscription in Old Norse literature; it is the notepad of the Nordic Middle Ages, carry-ing messages from one place to another (as we have seen in Hákonar sagaHákonar-sonar), able to record the survival of ...