Norse Mythology

Norse Mythology for Smart People provides an accessible, entertaining, and reliable introduction to the Vikings’ mythology and religion, with scholarly sources cited for everything. Come on in to learn all you’ve ever wanted to know about the Norse gods, stories, beliefs, way of life, and more!

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The cosmology of Norse mythology – the places in which the action occurs and their arrangement, you could say – is primarily an invisible, spiritual otherworld, although it overlapped with the Vikings’ physical world in a few cases. The Norse cosmology shares much in common with the cosmologies of other northern Eurasian shamanic traditions, but … Continue reading Cosmology →

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Norse mythology refers to the Scandinavian mythological framework that was upheld during and around the time of the Viking Age (c. 790- c. 1100...

As Iceland prepares to build its first temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age, we look at the deities that will be worshipped, including an amoral trickster and the blue ruler of the underworld

Vikings history is as extensive as the people it studies. The seafaring Vikings (in Danish, the Vikinger) were a group of people that came from the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.