This is a tale where human passions have a high cost; but in one passage in the Darraðarljóð, a skaldic poem in Old Norse, the saga moves beyond the blood and gore of the mortal realm.

Written between the 11th and 14th centuries, the Poetic Edda is a collection of stories about some of the most recognizable Norse deities, including Odin, Thor, and Loki. In the Poetic Edda poem ...

This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse ...

With the Norse, very little was written down. This was part of an oral tradition. It was the oral tradition of people who told great stories and who had a tradition of poetry that was committed to ...