Scandinaviana

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 ...

Today the title change is official: the Scandinavian 81: I bothered to figure out how to do it.  The address, at least for the moment, remai...

Is this project reckless or merely satiric?  It must be one or the other.  I'm in no intellectual position to compile this list, let alo...

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

I forgot to mention medieval Swedish rebel leader Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Enlightenment era Norwegian playwright, philospher and satirist...