The Northman: Cults, Rituals and Symbols
On this video I shall take the opportunity to speak about the movie The Northman (2022) by Sjón and Robert Eggers. I will focus on the explanation of the cults, […]
On this video I shall take the opportunity to speak about the movie The Northman (2022) by Sjón and Robert Eggers. I will focus on the explanation of the cults, […]
On this video let us explore the elements and rituals within the Cult of Odin as evidenced by both literary sources and material culture of the Scandinavian Iron Age. Bibliography […]
Jól (Yule) the Old Norse mid-winter celebration. It’s also the celebration of this channel’s existence, or rather, when I’ve officially become a Youtuber 6 years ago at December 21st 2016. […]
On this last part of these mini-series Waterscapes in Nordic Mythology, I shall focus on the forms of the Nykr (the metamorphic water-spirit) näck and strömkarl from Swedish folklore. Thus […]
For the third part of these short series I will focus on the water-spirit Nykr, found in several Nordic and Northern European folktales. It is important to study folklore material […]
A few more details on the figure of Loki, and its liminal character and transgressive behaviour, and hopefully, once and for all, this can settle the misconception of Loki having […]
Thor’s hammer is perhaps the most represented iconographic symbolism of the Nordic Iron Age and Middle Ages. A powerful symbol both Heathens and Christians have used in a variety of […]
Did Vikings pray? Well, yes! But not in the way we might think they did. The figure on the Thumbnail for this video isn’t from the Nordic Iron Age but […]
In this video I shall present a specific archaeological finding (“The Odin of Lejre” – Denmark) and the amount of information we can express from one single archaeological finding, as […]
Hello dear friends! On today’s video let us explore what we know about Viking Age Weddings, and taking the opportunity to explore some archaeological artefacts of Scandinavian Iron Age which […]