Readers hoping for a fully novelistic reinvention of these myths in Norse Mythology will be disappointed. Even if, for the sake of argument, it’s accepted that Snorri was channeling his pagan ...

Karl E. H. Seigfried, adjunct professor and pagan chaplain at Illinois Institute of Technology and author of the Norse Mythology Blog, said by e-mail that the Norse myths resonate on three levels ...

However, while it may be light on some of the more popular themes associated with Norse mythology, it’s heavy on the elemental spells, giving the culture’s history of paganism and wizardry ...

Dozens of ancient gold-foil figures depicting images of Norse gods have been ... of Frøy and Gerd, a god and goddess of fertility — were discovered at the pagan temple site where experts ...

Archaeologists have discovered 35 miniature gold-foil depictions of Norse gods tucked inside the remnants of a pagan temple in Norway. The gold foils, which are flat and as thin as a piece of ...

The remains of a 1,200-year-old pagan temple to the Old Norse gods such as Thor and Odin have been discovered in Norway — a rare relic of the Viking religion built a few centuries before ...

The next God of War game may leave the pantheon of Greek gods behind and invade Norse mythology, if a large leak of concept art and other assets is any indication. The leak, comprising dozens of ...

The first major temple devoted to the Norse gods since the Viking Age will begin construction in Iceland this month, the Guardian reports. The temple, which will be of circular shape, will be ...

Odin is one of the primary gods of Norse mythology, a pre-Christian pagan belief system central to Viking society. “This is the smoking gun for Odin’s presence in Scandinavia as early as the ...