[Related: Stone circles unearthed in Norway mark ancient children’s graves.] The Old Norse Sverris Saga details the reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson and is an important source of knowledge about ...

Thor — From Old Norse for “thunder,” he’s the Norse god of thunder ... Agnar — "Warrior with a sharp sword." 16. Aksel — ...

Some 500 years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, a Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the ...

So, sharpen your swords and ready your mead—here are the best books based on Norse mythology that will transport you to the ...

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Luckily for any fan of Vikings, the Norse gods are one of the most developed ... conditions such as being the first to forge Odin’s Sword or discovering and taking control of Yggdrasil.

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.

Study co-author Michael Martin, an evolutionary geneticist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told Live Science this may be the first time a person in the Norse sagas had been ...

A 12th-century Norse saga tells of an invading army from the south razing a castle stronghold and throwing a dead body into the well to render the water undrinkable. Human remains believed to be ...

A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old storyof King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg ...

By way of his estranged uncle, Magnus learns that his long-lost father is a Norse god and Asgard is on the brink of destruction. Unless Magnus can find an ancient sword lost by his father ...