Most stories of the Vikings and their gods focus on men. It’s time for the women to take centre stage: from giantesses to bad ...

Talking like an 18th-century pirate? That is sooo “2000 and late.” These days, between the Thor movies and Loki on Disney+, or the TV series Vikings, it’s all about being ancient Norse marauders. Now, ...

Languages evolve and change drastically over time. If you were to say street corn, nepo baby, or beach read — three terms recently added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary — to early English speakers, ...

Old Norse myths are familiar now. They went viral in the 19th century and have given rise since to nobody knows how many stories and fantasies and spin-offs. Everyone has heard of Ragnarok and ...

Some 500 years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, a Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the ...

Carolyne Larrington has recently published The Old Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think with Thames and Hudson. As professor of medieval European literature, I have been exploring Old Norse ...

Tolkien drew inspiration from Norse mythology for names and stories in LOTR, like Frodo Baggins. The names of dwarves in The Hobbit and Gandalf were inspired by the Norse epic Völsungasaga. Frodo ...