Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

Introduction to Old Norse grammar and study of standardized and non-standardized texts. An introduction to metre is also given, beginning with the Eddaic and skaldic poems in the original language.

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

The term “Norse” is typically used to describe medieval Scandinavian peoples, their culture, and language. Over the centuries ... influence throughout the British Isles. The words of Old Norse were ...

They spoke Old Norse, a language which had a striking influence on English thanks to their settlement in the north of England (it has given us ‘slaughter’, ‘to birth’, ‘cake’ and ‘happy’, among ...