Jormungandr is a snake so long it lies in the ocean with its own tail in its mouth, encircling the inhabited world. It is Thor's o...

Baldur is the god everyone liked, killed by a plant nobody thought to ask, using a brother who could not see what he was throwing....

Fenrir is the wolf the gods raised in their own yard, bound with a ribbon, and lost to anyway. That is the shape of the whole stor...

Ragnar, Ivar, Bjorn Ironside, Erik the Red, Leif Erikson and the rest, with what the annals record and what is saga invention.

How Norse names were built from a fixed set of elements, what the common ones meant, the bynames, and which popular names are modern inventions.

The hall of the slain as the poems describe it: the roof of shields, the doors, the einherjar, and why half the battle dead never went there at all.

The belt, the gloves, the goats and the stories, plus the place names, personal names and amulets that show Thor was the god ordinary people kept.

The god of poetry, wisdom and the battle dead: his many names, the tree, the eye, the ravens, and how much of the cult evidence there really is.

What the evidence actually shows about Norse grooming, why beard rings are a modern object, and how to size, place and wear them.

The swords of Middle Earth are built from real medieval literature and almost no real archaeology. Tolkien was a professor of Angl...