Some of these Nordic names are pulled directly from the credits of your favorite Marvel movies, while others are rooted in Norse mythology. Vikings are known for being conquerors, but many of them ...

One of things about the Norse gods is that everything ends very badly ... Most of them are male, but we have lots of names of goddesses, which makes you think there must have been lots of stories ...

Thor, the hammer-wielding God of Thunder. In Germanic mythology, Thor (whose name comes from Old Norse) is the hammer-wielding God of Thunder – associated with thunder, lightning, storms ...

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

IN this work Mr. Kermode, whose name is well known in connection with ... a short account is given of some leading details of the old Norse mythology as preserved in the Eddas.

Thor’s Fight with the Giants, 1872, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. When we think about Norse Mythology, it can be difficult to shake the image of an otherworldly Chris Hemsworth with bulging ...