Bragi Boddason was a famous Norwegian skaldic poet who lived in the first half of the 9th century and composed poetry about ...

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Hey guys!Welcome to yet another god of war video!Into todays we will be focussing our gaze on the realm of Helheim, the nordic equivalent of hell and the underworld.The realm plays a very important ...

Those resigning themselves passively to a lackluster wyrd condemned their souls to Helheim's grim resignation. It was seen as a wretched, unheroic end and drove Norse warriors to defy even death ...

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Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text. The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which ...

In the 800-year old Norse Sverris Saga, the author recounts the gruesome tale of a corpse being thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of an under-siege castle in Norway. Now that corpse ...

An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention of a dead man tossed in a drinking well after a raid on a castle in Norway, almost as an aside. The poor guy doesn’t even get a name.

Scientists corroborated an 800-year-old story about the literal poisoning of a well, according to a report in iScience. The Norse Sverris Saga, which recounts tales about King Sverre Sigurdsson, ...