Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Scandinavian Mythology A. The Creation At The Dawn Of Time there was nothing, neither sand nor sea, nor earth nor sky, only a huge chasm. The sun, the moon, the stars had no places. In the regions north of the great...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Preface In a book of this nature which deals with people and places of foreign tongues, one of the first problems to be solved is that of orthography. When it comes to Teutonic - Scandinavian, Babylonian, and Indian spelling, the problem...

For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year's giant straw Christmas goat _ the...

There aren't too many mean-looking things in Cupertino, this sleepy Silicon Valley haunt of Apple employees and overachieving middle schoolers.But there's something gruesome growing in one corner of town: Halo Custom Guitars, Inc.Fueled by a resurgence in heavy metal music, and its numerous dark sub-genres,...

In this excerpt, MacCulloch summarizes the Eddic creation myths and the conception of the Heavens and Earth.

In this excerpt, Crossley-Holland describes the Norse pantheon and the primary sources for the Norse mythological tradition.

In the following excerpt, Branston provides the historical context and description of the Norse people and culture, particularly in Iceland.