Daily Medieval

Wayland was a legendary figure whose name and fame stretched across the entire Germanic world, referred to in stories from the Norse, Frisia...

The first and much-talked -about poem in the  Poetic Edda  is the  Völuspá  ("Prophecy of the Seeress"). In it, a seeress tells Od...

The Poetic Edda  (author[s] unknown) is our name for a collection of narrative poems in Old Norse. It is distinct from the Prose Edda whose...

Written about 1220, the Prose Edda  by Snorri Sturluson is a detailed telling of the Scandinavian creation of the world, mythological storie...