Myths and sagas

The story of Baldr is one filled with tragedy. It all starts when Baldr is born, the son of the...

News of the Mead of Poetry traveled fast, even after Suttung had taken it from the dwarfs Fjalar and Galar....

Loki laughed loudly. Just as he thought he had become accustomed to his extraordinarily high standards of humor, he managed...

So last time we discussed the Norse pantheon and the war that raged on for ages between the two distinct...

Odin, Vili, and Ve had created the universe out of the remains of Ymir and had killed almost every living...

In the beginning, there was no light, but only chaotic darkness. This darkness inhabited no lifeforms, except for Rod, the...

The story of the creation of life in Norse mythology is a story of fire, ice, and darkness. That story...

Note: The Eridu Genesis is the oldest known Mesopotamian flood myth. It formed the inspiration for later flood stories like...

Long before humans populated the earth, the world was inhabited only by the gods. They were divided into two distinct...

Our story begins where the last adventure of Gilgamesh and Enkidu left off. The two friends (and brothers through adoption)...