In the Saga of the Volsungs, Fafnir says of the Ægishjálmr,“I wore my terror-helmet against all men …and I blew poison in every direction before me so that no man dared to come near me, and I feared no weapon. I never faced so many men that I did not feel myself much ...
i completely agree, they really did have some very cool names. well, hopefully some were quite rude and offensive as well. so vikings had normal given names. they didn't have surnames in the same way that we do. they might have what we call patronymics, so you could be the son of...
One may be certain that these ancient runes had names. Alas, no rune-master of the Common Germanic period either left us a list of names for the Elder Futhark or explained what these names meant. Therefore modern expositions of the original rune-names and rune-meanings are more or less ...
While the meanings of the names would not have influenced which name a Viking Age child was given, modern parents write and ask about names to give to their children today, medieval recreationists using these names for their Viking Age personas care about the meanings of names, and so forth...
It would be inaccurate and dumb to suggest that the Vikings were the only race of ancient people who had strange attitudes toward homosexuality. While Viking men lived in a fairly binary culture, they also partook in the Grindr of their day: forcing weaker men to have intercourse with them ...
may be attached, may allow seeing if not individual, at least narrowed down andmore specific experiences of self. The runic objects bearing personal names men-tioned in the introduction contain both female and male names, suggesting thatboth men and women could express their selves through this ...