Viking Strategy: How Norse Warriors Calculated Risk and Opportunity
The Vikings are often remembered for their violence, not their judgment. Popular history paints them as impulsive raiders driven by … Read More
Megan Tegman
Life on the Edge of Sea and Fate: Understanding the Viking Age World
To live in the Viking Age was to exist between certainty and chaos. The land was unforgiving, the sea unpredictable, … Read More
The Soul of the Forge: Viking Iron and the Master Smith
While the longships are the famous symbols of the North, the real power of the Viking Age was forged in … Read More
Risk and Fate in Viking Culture: How the Norse Understood Chance
Three Norns sat at the roots of Yggdrasil and wove the threads of human lives. Urd knew the past, Verdandi … Read More
Gambling in the Viking Age: Fact vs Legend
Popular culture likes to paint Vikings as reckless gamblers, people who would casually stake land, ships, or even their lives … Read More
Games of Chance in the Viking Age: Dice, Fate, and Early Gambling Traditions
When we imagine vikings, we usually picture longships, axes, and epic sagas. But everyday life in the Viking Age also … Read More
5 Myths About Viking Era Intoxicants And Cannabis
A ship burial is opened, and the ground gives up its small details. Seeds, pouches, and plant traces can survive … Read More
What Viking Culture Can Teach Us in Today’s Real World
In recent years, historians, business leaders, and cultural commentators have been revisiting Viking culture, not just as a chapter of … Read More
Loki As A Catalyst For Norse Myth And Sacred Order
Norse myth rarely treats order as a finished product. Stability looks temporary, earned, and always watched by fate. In that … Read More
Odin and Hrungnir: A Clash of Speed and Wit
The Prose Edda, primarily in the Skáldskaparmál section, recounts a fascinating encounter between Odin, the Allfather, and Hrungnir, a formidable … Read More