The male ruler of Ireland's fairy folk appears in many guises throughout folklore including the benevolent Finvarra and the ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Rick Riordan who is know for his Percy Jackson outings, had once shared his views on Loki from Marvel Studios, and how he ...

Some book series never quite leave us, even long after we read the last page. For me, no series captures ...

Played by Jharrel Jerome in the show, 16-year-old Korey Wise was one of the five black teenagers wrongly convicted of raping ...

Elves appear across Germanic and Scandinavian literature. The name seems to derive from the old Norse word “alfr” and the old Germanic word “albi.” Both seem to carry the meaning “white.” In the early ...

God of War is now in pre-production. Casting has started. Filming is expected to start in March 2026. The first season will ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

This video explores Odin’s role as the All-Father in Norse mythology and the many stories surrounding him.

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...

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 ...

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 ...