Daily Medieval

Wayland Smith was a legendary figure in Germanic culture. The earliest and most-detailed origin for his legend is in the Völundarkviða (Ol...

Everyone is probably familiar with the valkyries, the "choosers of the slain" in Norse legend. They didn't just carry the dead...

I remember the character Queenie in the TV show "Lark Rise to Candleford" (based on the partially autobiographical books by Flora ...