Scandinavian History

Iceland

  • The Norse history of Greenland

    It cannot have escaped anyone that Greenland is high on the agenda right now, as certain forces imagine that it is only a matter of demanding that a country and its population can be taken over without anyone actually having… Continue reading

    The Norse history of Greenland

  • Völvan – the Norse seeress

    Regarding the Viking Age, it is not known with absolute certainty how the religious ceremonies were organised. That blot – sacrifices, in other words – took place, we know, and that these sacrifices were directed to various of the ancient… Continue reading

  • Egil Skallagrimsson, Viking poet

    Not all names in the Norse or Icelandic sagas and secular myths refer to people who actually existed. An exception is the Icelandic poet Egil Skallagrimsson; he lived once and has gone down in history as not only Iceland’s but… Continue reading