Vikings faced similar practical challenges, which makes the traditional interpretation of the ring’s requirements questionable. At the heart of this reinterpretation is the Old Norse word “auk.” ...

His elves and dwarves are plucked directly from the Norse cosmos, and Gandalf is inspired by none other than Odin the All-Father, the most important Viking deity. Even Tolkien’s One Ring is ...

Not surprisingly, this era, during which the Norse perfected longship design, coincides with the eruption of seaborne Viking raids on ... for tree-ring analysis of its oak timbers revealed that ...

Even Odin, considered the father of Norse Mythology, received aid from a vølve ... That changed in the 1950s, when researchers uncovered a vølve grave in the Viking ring castle of Fyrkat near the town ...

Tree-ring analysis of the ... Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on the high seas, although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland ...