The Norse discovery of North America is well-known and quite well documented throughout the passage of time, initially recounted in the famous Icelandic sagas (whose authorship was and remains quasi-anonymous) written down during the High Middle Ages in Iceland (more specifically the Saga of the Greenlanders or Gr쎦nlendinga saga as well as the Saga of…
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…
Landnama is a survival-based video game developed by Sonderland Games set in Viking Age Iceland, revolving around the Norse settlement of the island. The title of the video game references the medieval manuscript Landn쎡mab쎳k (i.e. the Book of the Settlements in Old Icelandic or Old Norse) which recounts the Norse colonisation of Iceland during the…
Hnefatafl (alternatively known as tafl, tablut, or kongens bord, i.e. king’s board; hnefi means closed hand or fist, but in this context the king piece, and tafl board in Old Norse, therefore king’s board) is a turn-based indie and strategy video game developed by Philippe Schober inspired by the eponymous ancient board game (chess-like in…
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…
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