Fenrir the wolf, Jormungandr the serpent that lies in the sea around the world, and Hel who rules the dead are three children born...

A bearded axe is an axe whose cutting edge hangs well below the eye. That long lower lip is the most recognisable feature of Norse...

Norse myth has two families of gods. The Aesir are the group around Odin, Thor, Tyr, Frigg, Baldr and Heimdall. The Vanir are a sm...

Ragnarok is the end of the world as Old Norse poetry tells it: a winter that will not break, a battle in which most of the gods ar...

Huginn and Muninn are Odin's two ravens. They are named in Grimnismal in the Poetic Edda, where Odin says they fly over the whole ...

Yggdrasil is the great tree at the centre of Norse cosmology, an ash whose roots and branches hold the worlds together. It is desc...

The Elder Futhark is a 24 character alphabet used across Germanic speaking Europe from roughly 150 to 800 AD. The full table of al...

The Vegvisir is an Icelandic magical stave, eight branching arms around a centre, and it is not Viking Age. Its only early source ...

The valknut is a knot of three interlocked triangles. Unlike most Norse symbols sold today, it really is Viking Age: it is carved ...

A drinking horn is exactly what the name says: the hollow horn of an ox or a cow, cleaned out, polished and used as a cup. It hold...