Famed for their ruthless fighting skills and brave exploring little is written about Viking religion and their day to day ritual practices which were arguably a more central component in Norse cultures than warring. Contrary to what pop-culture m...
Myths, folklore ancient songs and poems present the number ‘nine’ as being connected with the underworld, and this has been extended into modern pop culture. There were ‘nine circles of Hell’ in Dante's Read More
A linguistic concept holds that if a term exists in a language, the concept it describes is present in that culture. In this way, language reveals a particular culture’s beliefs. For example, the Japanese language originally did not have a un...
The northern countries that make up Scandinavia, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Norway are home to the Norse mythologies; stories that truly reflect the harsh conditions of this part of the world; A dark, ice-gripped universe in which gian...
Richard Wagner’s 19th century opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of Nibelungen), affectionately known as The “Ring” Cycle, may be considered by many as the height of operatic absurdity, with larger than life staging, costumes...
