The home of Midgardians, Midgard is one of the Nine Realms of the World Tree, commonly referred to as Ancient Scandinavia and the Northlands. The cornerstone of the Norse realms, Midgard is strategically positioned midway between Asgard, to which the realm is connected via the Bifröst, and Helheim, the final resting place of the majority of mortals. This emphasizes the harmony between heaven and hell, order and chaos. Made long ago by the All-Father himself from the body of Ymir, Midgard was designed with humankind's needs in mind. One of our Viking necklaces would be the perfect compliment to ..read more

According to Norse mythology, Asgard was the home of the gods, the Aesir, and was connected to Midgard, the home of mankind, via a rainbow bridge. Asgard was not to be confused with the Judeo-Christian concept of Heaven, even though it was believed to be the home of the Norse gods. Rather, Asgard was considered the home of the gods and comprised their many living areas and banqueting halls, including Valhalla, Odin's heavenly palace where brave warriors were dispatched. This was similar to the Greek Mount Olympus. Asgard served as the setting for numerous stories about the gods and their explo ..read more

In Norse mythology, Heimdall is the gods' sentinel. Known as the bright deity and the god with the palest skin, Heimdall lived at the entrance to Asgard, watching over Bifrost, the rainbow bridge. He could see a hundred leagues, heard the wool growing on sheep, felt the grass growing in the meadows, and needed less sleep than a bird. It was thought that when the giants, Heimdall's foes, approached at Ragnarök, the end of the world of gods and mortals, he would sound the horn to call the gods. Heimdall preserved the "ringing" horn, Gjallarhorn, which could be heard across heaven, earth, and t ..read more

Baldr is the youngest son of Odin and Frigga, the most attractive of the Aesir sky gods, according to Norse mythology. All the gods in Asgard were made happy and cheered simply by his presence, and he emanated a very bright light wherever he went. The goddess of the Aesirs Nana, who looked after Asgard's orchards, was the spouse of Baldr. They resided in the Breidablik Hall, and everything around it was naturally beautiful; nothing unclean could possibly exist there. Forseti, their son, would grow up to become known as the deity of justice. The Baldur's Draumar (Baldur's Dream) story describ ..read more

In Norse mythology, Hel is the queen of the afterlife realm of Hel. She is the daughter of Loki the god and Angrboda the giantess, and the sister of Fenrir the wolf and Jörmungandr the World Serpent. Although she is sometimes referred to as a goddess, Hel is actually a half-goddess and jötunn, a being from Jotunheim, the realm of the giants. Her name, like that of Greek Hades, is the same as the location she oversees, and it means "to hide", "to cover", or "hidden place" (Hades' name means "the hidden one"). Both she and her domain, like Hades, were co-opted, distorted, and perverted by Chris ..read more

  The main gods of the Norse pantheon are known as the Aesir or Sir in Old Norse. They are one of the two main clans of Norse gods, along with the Vanir. Numerous well-known characters from Scandinavian mythology are included in the Aesir, including Odin, Frigg, Thor, Baldr, and Tyr. These Norse gods are believed to reside in Asgard, a realm isolated from Midgard (the world of the living) by the Bifrost (rainbow bridge). The name "Aesir" is also occasionally used in mythological sources to refer to all Norse gods, including both Aesir and Vanir. Please take a look at our beautiful and e ..read more

Loki Loki, the famous trickster god of the Norse mythology, was a cunning god renowned for his numerous plots and lies. Loki was a shape-shifter, and the variety of his forms matched the reasons for his mischief, which included money, women, wisdom, and the pure joy of his knavery. With Loki, things weren't always as they seemed. While Loki's mischief frequently got the gods into trouble, his trickery also regularly helped them get out of it. Loki, a member of the Aesir tribe of gods, was one of the four supreme gods of Norse mythology, along with Odin, Thor, and Freya. Although Loki's mytho ..read more

Odin is in charge of the gorgeous, golden hall known as Valhalla. It is situated in Asgard, the Aesir's stronghold home. The Einherjar, warriors chosen by Odin, and the Valkyries, winged female figures tasked with taking the chosen warriors after their death in combat, are the only inhabitants of Valhalla. The Einherjar lived in Valhalla, where they would eat, drink, and train until Ragnarök, when they would march out of the many doors of the vast hall to battle the giants of Jötunheim. Valhalla is identified as being in the Glasheimr realm and is described in the stanzas 8 to 10 of the poem ..read more

A rune is a letter in the runic alphabet, a family of similar alphabets that originated with the Germanic peoples. With a few exceptions, runes were employed for specialized writing before the Germanic languages used the Latin alphabet and afterward. Runes can be used to convey ideas that they are named after (ideographs) in addition to the sound value that they represent (a phoneme). Examples of the latter are known as Begriffsrunen (or "concept runes") by academics. The Scandinavian versions are also known as futhark or fuark (from their first six letters of the script: F, U,, A, R, and K ..read more

From the end of the eighth century to the beginning of the eleventh century, a Scandinavian people called the Norse inhabited what are now Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The term "Norse" alludes to immigrants from Northern Europe who were also traders, farmers, and mariners. While "Norse" and "Viking" both refer to people from Scandinavia, the latter name refers to a more particular type of Norsemen who worked as auxiliary soldiers for their Jarls, high-ranking chiefs. Both traders and warriors, the Vikings occasionally plundered, pillaged, and overran settlements across Europe. Norse explorer ..read more