THE tales of which this volume presents the first English translation — though, as regards some of them, hardly the first English version — appear to have been collected about twenty or twenty-five ...

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 those ...

An 800-year-old Norse story about a military raid has been verified by analysis of ancient DNA. Sverris Saga is one of the Kings’ sagas – a series of Old Norse tales which tell the lives of Nordic ...

Neil Gaiman's "Norse Mythology" is the book to reach for when it feels like the world is coming to an end. Because it is coming to an end — at least, it is for the gods. The world ends by fire and ice ...