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  1. norse-mythology.orgNorse Mythology for Smart People - The Ultimate Online Guide ...

    Norse Mythology for Smart People provides an accessible, entertaining, and reliable introduction to the Vikings’ mythology and religion, with scholarly sources cited for everything. Come on in to learn all you’ve ever wanted to know about the Norse gods, stories, beliefs, way of life, and more!

  2. norse-mythology.org › tales › ragnarRagnarok - Norse Mythology for Smart People

    Ragnarok - Norse Mythology for Smart People. “Battle of the Doomed Gods” by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (1882) Ragnarok is the cataclysmic destruction of the cosmos and everything in it – even the gods. When Norse mythology is considered as a chronological set of tales, the story of Ragnarok naturally comes at the very end.

  3. norse-mythology.org › cosmology › valhallaValhalla - Norse Mythology for Smart People

    Valhalla. “Walhall” by Emil Doepler (c. 1905) Valhalla (pronounced “val-HALL-uh”; Old Norse Valhöll, “the hall of the fallen” [1]) is the hall where the god Odin houses the dead whom he deems worthy of dwelling with him. According to the Old Norse poem Grímnismál (“The Song of the Hooded One”), the roof of the “gold-bright ...

  4. norse-mythology.org › cosmology › the-nine-worldsAsgard - Norse Mythology for Smart People

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    Asgard (Old Norse Ásgarðr, Enclosure of the Aesir) is one of the Nine Worlds of Norse mythology and the home and fortress of the Aesir, one of the two tribes of gods (the other being the Vanir, who have their home in Vanaheim). Asgard is located in the sky[1] (albeit spiritually rather than physically, of course) and is connected to Midgard, the wo...

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    The -gard element in Asgards name is a reference to the ancient Germanic concept of the distinction between the innangard and utangard. That which is innangard (inside the fence) is orderly, law-abiding, and civilized, while that which is utangard (beyond the fence) is chaotic, anarchic, and wild. This applies both to the geographical plane and the...

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    Midgard (Middle Enclosure), the world of human civilization, is, as the name implies, somewhere in the middle not quite as innangard as Asgard and not quite as utangard as Jotunheim. But Midgard is a space enclosed, on the geographical plane, by fences, and on the psychological plane by norms and laws. This makes it much closer at least in theory...

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  5. norse-mythology.org › gods-and-creatures › the-aesirOdin - Norse Mythology for Smart People

    Odin (pronounced “OH-din”; Old Norse Óðinn, Old English and Old Saxon Woden, Old High German Wuotan, Wotan, or Wodan, Proto-Germanic *Woðanaz, “Master of Ecstasy”) is one of the most complex and enigmatic characters in Norse mythology, and perhaps in all of world literature.

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