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How to Clean a Drinking Horn (and Keep It for Y...
Clean a drinking horn by hand right after use, with cool or lukewarm water, a drop of mild dish soap and a soft brush. Rinse it well, drain it open...
How to Clean a Drinking Horn (and Keep It for Y...
Clean a drinking horn by hand right after use, with cool or lukewarm water, a drop of mild dish soap and a soft brush. Rinse it well, drain it open...
Geri and Freki: Odin's Wolves
Geri and Freki are Odin's two wolves in Norse mythology. Both names mean roughly "the greedy one" or "the ravenous one." Grímnismál 19 in the Poetic Edda says Odin gives...
Geri and Freki: Odin's Wolves
Geri and Freki are Odin's two wolves in Norse mythology. Both names mean roughly "the greedy one" or "the ravenous one." Grímnismál 19 in the Poetic Edda says Odin gives...
Aslaug: The Queen Who Proved Her Riddle
Aslaug is a purely legendary figure: no historical source records her, and she appears only in Icelandic legend, chiefly Ragnars saga loðbrókar (13th century). In the story she is the...
Aslaug: The Queen Who Proved Her Riddle
Aslaug is a purely legendary figure: no historical source records her, and she appears only in Icelandic legend, chiefly Ragnars saga loðbrókar (13th century). In the story she is the...
The Danelaw: When Half of England Was Danish
The Danelaw was the broad slice of England, roughly everything northeast of a line from London to Chester, where Danish law and custom ruled from the late 870s. It was...
The Danelaw: When Half of England Was Danish
The Danelaw was the broad slice of England, roughly everything northeast of a line from London to Chester, where Danish law and custom ruled from the late 870s. It was...
Fafnir: The Dwarf Who Became a Dragon
Fafnir is the most famous dragon in Norse mythology, and he was not born one. In the Völsunga saga he is Hreidmar's son, who murders his father for a cursed...
Fafnir: The Dwarf Who Became a Dragon
Fafnir is the most famous dragon in Norse mythology, and he was not born one. In the Völsunga saga he is Hreidmar's son, who murders his father for a cursed...
Völva: The Norse Seeress Who Saw the Future
A völva was a Norse seeress: a woman who practiced the magic called seiðr to read fate and speak with spirits. The name means "staff bearer." Sources like Völuspá and...
Völva: The Norse Seeress Who Saw the Future
A völva was a Norse seeress: a woman who practiced the magic called seiðr to read fate and speak with spirits. The name means "staff bearer." Sources like Völuspá and...