Norse

Heimdall requires less sleep than a bird. He can see for a hundred leagues in every direction, equally well by […]

When Baldr fell dead, the Prose Edda says that the gods were so stunned that none of them could speak.

The Norse gods are powerful, ancient, and in most cases considerably older than the humans they watch over. Odin has

Tuesday is named after Tyr. Not after Odin, who gives Wednesday its name. Not after Thor, who gives Thursday. Tyr,

Freyr’s sword fights by itself. Without anyone holding it, without anyone directing it, the sword swings against giants and all

Jörmungandr is usually described as Thor’s nemesis, the monstrous serpent that kills the god of thunder at Ragnarök and is

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