Norse mythology is the folklore of the Northern Germanic peoples ... To begin with, it looked like a smart move on the part of the frost giants, as the story says that on seeing Mist Calf, Thor ...

All in all, rather impressive. But Ragnar’s sons were also no slouches when it came to Viking derring-do. Here’s what the Old Norse saga Tale of Ragnar’s Sons tells us of these remarkable 9th-century ...

Norse mythology features Freyja, a goddess associated with beauty, war, royalty, love, and sex. You can often see ...

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 ...

to the story of the sacred tree Yggdrasil and the antics of Odin’s children, we’ve curated a selection of the best books ...

But the true essence of the legend lies not in our sanitised representations of golden-haired women drifting regally through the skies on white horses, but in Old Norse mythology of the 13th ...

In Greek mythology the Titan Atlas bore the weight of the heavens on his shoulders. A Greek myth is that Zeus, a God, threw down lightning bolts on to earth when he was in a rage. While Norse myth ...