Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Like anything else, interest in enchantment — in magic and mystery and the return of once and future kings — goes in cycles, and we are clearly in a period of resurgence. New Age spirituality is more ...

According to scholars of Scandinavian studies, ideas about Vikings and pagan Norse mythology today can often not be verified scientifically. “They are based essentially on reports written by Christian ...

Grant it, most Christians dismiss mythology as outright bupkis and any comparison’s to Christ in any of it as ludicrous. However, I like to make up my own mind about things so I began my own ...