Ragnarok
Articles tagged Ragnarok.
Hel: Norse Mythology’s Half-Dead Goddess
Hel a death goddess ruling a frozen hall, a half-rotten body, and a realm of oaths broken—how did Hel become one of Norse myth’s...
Norse Mythology Explained: Gods, Realms, and Sources
Norse mythology preserves Scandinavian religious beliefs from 800 BCE to 500 CE through texts like the Eddas, cosmology, deities, and Ragnarok prophecies.
Jötunheim: The Norse Land of Giants
Jotunheim, the land of giants in Norse myth: Ironwood, Ifing, Útgarðr, kinships with the gods, and the jötnar’s role from primeval frost to Ragnarök.
Snorri Sturluson: Our Most Important Source for Norse Myth?
Snorri Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda two centuries after Iceland’s conversion. His handbook for poets is essential, but it is also a Christian rationalization.
Loki’s Children: Hel, Fenrir, and Jörmungandr
Loki’s Children the Norse sources name three children born to Loki and the giantess Angrboda, and each one plays a specific structural role in...
Fenrir and Gleipnir: The Chain That Bound the Wolf
What the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda say about the binding of Fenrir, what Gleipnir was made from, and what Tyr’s sacrifice meant in...
Loki’s Children: Hel, Fenrir, and Jörmungandr
Loki’s Children the Norse sources name three children born to Loki and the giantess Angrboda, and each one plays a specific structural...
Fenrir and Gleipnir: The Chain That Bound the Wolf
What the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda say about the binding of Fenrir, what Gleipnir was made from, and what Tyr’s sacrifice...