According to Norse myth, Skadi first visited Asgard, the home of the gods, to seek revenge. A giantess, she went armed for war because the gods had killed her father. But when she arrived, the deities ...

This online mythology course is an introduction to ... This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work ...

This is a tale where human passions have a high cost; but in one passage in the Darraðarljóð, a skaldic poem in Old Norse ... In several poems in the Poetic Edda, the Valkyries are described ...

Tandfe means ‘tooth fairy’ in modern Swedish. Why mention the ‘modern’ bit? Well, because it didn’t always mean this. In the ...

I first came across the Norse myths in ... who wrote the Prose Edda, started writing this down was in order to explain what are called kennings. These are poetic turns of phrase, ways that a ...

In the Poetic Edda, Angrboda is only mentioned once as ... Gornichec creates a narrative for this mysterious figure in Norse mythology by depicting her relationships with her children, her love ...