Scandinaviana

My knowledge of 20th century Scandinavian political history is relatively weak. I began at the beginning, and so  of course , as yet, I know...

This post currently consists of notes towards an essay in occasional progress on Vikings in popular culture. **** Everyone knows that Vi...

In Norse mythology, Jormungandr, the world serpent, is one of the three monstrous offspring of the god Loki. Jormungandr's siblings a...

Today "The Danish history Books I-IX" by Saxo Grammaticus. His chronicle of the kings of Denmark, as I understand it, is at least ...

King Harald Finehair allegedly unified Norway, for the first time, in the ninth century. He’s not to be confused with Harald Bluetooth, ki...

By tomorrow evening I intend to have highlighted and summarized the lives of all of my Vikings who feature prominently in Heimskringla . S...

As far as I can tell, Heyerdahl's Search for Odin ( Jakten pa Odin in Norwegian) has yet to be translated into English. This saddens ...

No-one except Thor Heyerdahl, according to a most erudite friend, takes seriously Snorri Sturluson's contention the "Aesir" c...