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How to Celebrate Yule: Traditions From the Sources
To celebrate Yule the way the sources support it, keep three nights around midwinter, brew or buy good ale, drink formal toasts to the gods and to your dead, swear...
How to Celebrate Yule: Traditions From the Sources
To celebrate Yule the way the sources support it, keep three nights around midwinter, brew or buy good ale, drink formal toasts to the gods and to your dead, swear...
The Yule Cat, Grýla and Iceland's 13 Yule Lads
The Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn) is a monstrous cat from Icelandic folklore that comes for anyone who does not receive a new piece of clothing before Christmas. Modern Icelandic tradition groups...
The Yule Cat, Grýla and Iceland's 13 Yule Lads
The Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn) is a monstrous cat from Icelandic folklore that comes for anyone who does not receive a new piece of clothing before Christmas. Modern Icelandic tradition groups...
Ratatoskr: The Gossiping Squirrel of Yggdrasil
Ratatoskr is the squirrel of Norse mythology who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil, carrying words between the unnamed eagle at the crown and the dragon Níðhöggr at...
Ratatoskr: The Gossiping Squirrel of Yggdrasil
Ratatoskr is the squirrel of Norse mythology who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil, carrying words between the unnamed eagle at the crown and the dragon Níðhöggr at...
Harald Hardrada: The Last Great Viking King
Harald Hardrada (Harald Sigurdsson, c. 1015 to 1066) was king of Norway from 1046 until his death at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25, 1066. Wounded at Stiklestad...
Harald Hardrada: The Last Great Viking King
Harald Hardrada (Harald Sigurdsson, c. 1015 to 1066) was king of Norway from 1046 until his death at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25, 1066. Wounded at Stiklestad...
Erik the Red: The Exile Who Founded Greenland
Erik the Red (Eiríkr Þorvaldsson, born around 950) was a Norse chieftain who founded the first European settlement in Greenland around 985 AD. Exiled from Iceland over killings, he spent...
Erik the Red: The Exile Who Founded Greenland
Erik the Red (Eiríkr Þorvaldsson, born around 950) was a Norse chieftain who founded the first European settlement in Greenland around 985 AD. Exiled from Iceland over killings, he spent...
Lagertha: The Legend of the Viking Shieldmaiden
Lagertha is a legendary Viking shieldmaiden known from exactly one source: the Gesta Danorum, written in Latin by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus around 1200. Saxo makes her a warrior,...
Lagertha: The Legend of the Viking Shieldmaiden
Lagertha is a legendary Viking shieldmaiden known from exactly one source: the Gesta Danorum, written in Latin by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus around 1200. Saxo makes her a warrior,...