"Norway and the Nordic countries have a pagan heritage to be somewhat proud of. A heritage that few have been aware of," says ...

This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse ...

This is a tale where human passions have a high cost; but in one passage in the Darraðarljóð, a skaldic poem in Old Norse, the saga moves beyond the blood and gore of the mortal realm.

According to legend, Odin, chief of the Norse gods, speared himself to a tree ... Judging from the many poems and legends chronicling their feats, the Rune Masters held positions of great ...

The Poetic Edda is an ancient collection of Old Norse narrative poems in alliterative verse. A must-read for academics and casual enthusiasts alike, the grandiose poems are set following the ...

So men from this elite section of Norse society would have expected to be chosen to join Odin's warriors after death. Sagas and skaldic verse – poems composed at the courts of Norse rulers ...

With the Norse, very little was written down. This was part of an oral tradition. It was the oral tradition of people who told great stories and who had a tradition of poetry that was committed to ...