God of Wednesday

"At summer's end, I traveled north, / crossed the sea, to the salted rim of the Arctic." So writes the poet Mark Wunderlich ...

What is a troll? That's the question answered (sort of) by the very first troll on record, a troll-woman who accosted the 9th-century ...

Songs of the Vikings--Viking poetry--has been the topic of this blog a number of times. Poetry was the gift of Odin , according to the 13t...

One thing I love about Iceland is how alive the medieval world remains. City streets, candy bars, and beers are named for Norse gods a...

British writer Sarah Moss and I are kindred spirits. Shortly after I visited Greenland to see Viking Age archaeological sites in 2006, I...

"I know giants of ages past, … I know how nine roots form nine worlds / below the Earth where the Ash Tree rises..." Last we...

Where did poetry come from? According to Snorri, it is the gift of Odin—but Snorri’s tale of the honey-mead that turns ...

Authors don’t have total say over their books’ titles. Publishing houses have people who specialize in such things as th...