The legend of Atlantis has been a fascinating tale for many people throughout the passage of time. This legend traces its roots back to ancient Greece and ancient Egypt. The ancient Greek philosopher and scholar Plato wrote about the legendary sunken city-continent of Atlantis around 360 BCE in two of his Socratic dialogues entitled Timaeus…
Ska쎰i (also alternatively known as Skadi, Skathe, or Skade in English) is a j쎶tunn (i.e. a race of supernatural beings, relatively erroneously translated as giants in English given the fact that not all of them are humongous in physical regards) goddess in the Norse mythology who was married to the Norse god of the sea,…
Many know of the legendary Valhalla (or Valh잫ll as it is known in Old Norse, the language of the Norsemen during the Viking Age), by far the most popular form of Norse afterlife, a great hall or palace of Odin (the leader of the 쎆sir gods) which exists in a parallel dimension (i.e. Asgard, on…
Yggdrasil is the name of the sacred ash tree of life in the Norse mythology, the mythology of the Norse (otherwise commonly known as Vikings which was the title of what would nowadays be a profession or an occupation and not an ethnic label), one of the Germanic peoples of the Early Middle Ages native…
Odin (originally known in Old Norse as 쎓쎰inn and in Old English as W얍den) is one of the most important divinities in the Norse mythology. He is part of the슠쎆sir branch of gods along with (among others) Frigg (his wife; the goddess of wisdom),슠Baldr (his son with goddess Frigg; god of justice), Thor (his son;…
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