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Loki is one of the most debated and complex deities in Norse myth. This trickster god was more than just a strange character.

The Helm of Awe, or Helm of Terror ( Ægishjálmr in Old Norse), is a mysterious and powerful symbol to the Vikings and Norse mythology.

York, UK is the only place on Earth with its own Viking smell deodorant, seductively called “Norse Power,” which reflects blood, bathing, diet, and grooming!

Yggdrasil, the world tree, is alive, organic, fragile, and bound by the dimensions of time in ancient Norse myth.

There are more than 800 years between the stories of Viking god Loki first being written down and his arrival (in the superb Tom Hiddleston) in the Marvel cinematic universe in 2011’s Thor. The new Disney+ series Loki, set to be released on June 9, is primed to explore more antics of Thor’s trickster brother as he attempts to fix the timeline he helped break in Avengers: Endgame. Among his many talents, Loki has cheated death a few times in the...

Advertisement In Norse mythology, Loki causes just as much confusion as his Marvel iteration. Though there aren’t any stories of him outwitting death, there are plenty of myths where he shapeshifts, swaps genders, or tricks gods into killing other gods. In the Marvel universe, he’s quite prone to allegiance swapping. Let’s dig into this troublemaker’s journey. What is Loki’s origin? The legends surrounding the Norse god are first documented in writing around the 13th century, primaril...

How to Write a Pro-Glacier Book: An Earth Day Reading List Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, Iceland. Photo by beau mori on Unsplash. My writing is a product of my reading, so today, on Earth Day, I am pleased to share some of the books that inspired me to write On Time and Water. The theme of the book is, as the title says, time and water, and how all the elements of water that used to change on a geological scale of thousands or millions of years now change in a single human lifetime. Sometim...

Poetic Edda  is composed of 29 poems, contained in a famous manuscript known as the  Codex Regius  N. 2365 (which has for centuries been the property of the Copenhagen University). And the first two texts of the collection—the  Völospá and the  Havamál—are particularly relevant for the image of Odin as a god of  secret knowledge , and consequently master of the  art of poetry . Odin throws a spear at the Vanir host in the Norse Æsir-Vanir war of gods. (Lorenz Frølich /  ) ...

New York Times-bestselling science fiction epic Out of the Dark, Earth beat back an alien invasion. Now weve got to make sure they dont come back, in Into the Light. The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and our cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn’t expect the survivors’ tenacity. And, crucially, they didn’t know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, w...