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    Category: Norse Mythology

    From King Arthur to Newly Discovered Runes: The Year With No Sun

    What do the death of the legendary King Arthur and the Norse Prelude to Ragnarok have in common? They very well might have been inspired by the… Read more “From King Arthur to Newly Discovered Runes: The Year With No Sun”

    November 26, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Sleipnir, Odin’s Eight Legged Horse

    Enjoy Loki as a hermaphroditic were-horse who engages in bestiality, resulting in the birth of a cryptozoid

    September 24, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Suggested Reading: Norse Mythology

    Two of the richest textual sources for Norse myth come from the Poetic and Prose Eddas. The Poetic Edda represent an compendium of older, oral poems, anonymous… Read more “Suggested Reading: Norse Mythology”

    August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Who Wants to Live Forever? The Apples of Idunn

    One of the interesting features of the Norse Gods (as well as their distant relatives, the Vedic Gods of Southeast Asia) is that they are mortal. Yes,… Read more “Who Wants to Live Forever? The Apples of Idunn”

    February 12, 2019August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    The Great Winter, and the Hungry Wolf

    Ragnarok, or the Twilight of the Gods, is the great Norse Apocalypse. While two human youth will survive, hidden away in what may be the alcove of… Read more “The Great Winter, and the Hungry Wolf”

    December 13, 2018August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    A Boy and His Dog: Tyr and Fenris

    There’s a good chance you may not have heard of Tyr. At the same time, we all acknowledge His day, once a week. Yup, as surely as… Read more “A Boy and His Dog: Tyr and Fenris”

    August 14, 2018August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Thor & Loki get Punk’d by a Giant

    The following tale comes from the Prose Edda, an early 13th century Icelandic mythological work written by a man whose name is equally epic: Snorri Sturluson. As… Read more “Thor & Loki get Punk’d by a Giant”

    May 21, 2018August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    The Sky Wolves: Skoll and Hati (Norse Eclipses)

    While there are no specifically direct references to solar or lunar eclipses in Norse mythology, if we pick through The Poetic Edda, an anonymous collection of old… Read more “The Sky Wolves: Skoll and Hati (Norse Eclipses)”

    August 17, 2017August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Poems Before Ragnarok: Odin and the Runes

    Imagine you are the king of a race of Gods. But ruling the Gods bores you. It’s wisdom you seek, for even the Gods are not all-knowing.… Read more “Poems Before Ragnarok: Odin and the Runes”

    July 21, 2017August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team
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