Author name: John G

The name Yggdrasil contains more compressed meaning than almost any other word in Norse mythology, and unpacking it is the […]

Ragnarök does not mean Twilight of the Gods. That translation comes from Richard Wagner, who used Götterdämmerung, the German for

The Valkyrie most people picture is a woman in a horned helmet on a winged horse, riding through the sky

Fenrir has not harmed anyone at the moment the gods decide to bind him. He has grown large enough that

In most popular treatments of Norse mythology, Odin is the chief god and Thor is his notable son, the strong

Across Scandinavia, the evidence for religious veneration of the Norse gods is embedded in the landscape. Place names containing the

Odin knows how he dies. He has known for a long time. The völva whose vision opens the Völuspá, the