“I think it’s obscene,” the high priest, Hilmar Hilmarsson, said of the way white supremacists are coopting Norse symbols like Thor’s hammer because they believe the Vikings were a pure ...

The Mjölnir: a hammer wielded by Thor, the Norse god of thunder. [Image: Wiki Commons] Mjölnir is one symbol we can be pretty sure was used by the original adherents of the Norse belief system ...

The “QAnon shaman” had this symbol tattooed alongside other, more neutral images from Norse myth. Gendron’s manifesto connects this symbol with Norse culture by overlaying it on a photo of a ...

A tattoo of a Norse symbol of the afterlife now closely associated with white supremacist groups is visible on a federal agent who participated in last week’s immigration raid on Martha’s ...

At The Conversation, we asked several scholars who study symbols – including ancient Norse images and more recent flags from U.S. history – to explain what they saw during the riot ...

or create their own symbols, and then use them in a variety of ways. And that includes, but it's not limited to Norse pagan symbols," Pitcavage said. Despite the prevalence of terms referenced now by ...

Jake Angeli, better known as the “QAnon Shaman” or “Q Shaman,” also sported several tattoos of symbols associated with Norse paganism, known as heathenry. Read our latest issue or browse back issues.

These tattoos were of Norse symbols such as Thor’s hammer. White nationalism is fuelled by a weaponised version of Norse mythology. It is the invented Aryan heritage that underpins racist ...

On his torso he has a large Thor’s hammer, known as Mjölnir, and what appears to be an image of the Norse world tree, Yggdrasill. Mjölnir is one symbol we can be pretty sure was used by the ...