One of things about the Norse gods is that everything ends very badly ... And they turn his blood into the Mead of Poetry and when you drink it you get poetry. And because some of these stories ...
She was mentioned only once in a collection of Old Norse poems called Poetica Edda, so not much is known about her. However, ...
This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse ...
Yet the Norse raiders had a culture as rich and ... a great hall presided over by the god Odin, the treacherous god of battle and poetry. Here they would enjoy a long age of fighting and feasting.
In the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana I ... As Robert Blumetti observes in The Norse Gods and Their Myths, the Valkyries’ duty to nourish and revive means that they are “not only the collectors ...