Norse
Every winter, across the German-speaking world, the dead ride through the night sky. In Middle High German they were called Wuotanes Her, Odin’s Army. In modern German, Wutendes Heer, the Furious Host, or Wilde Jagd, the Wild Hunt. The scholar Jacob Grimm...
Norse
Charlemagne’s forces spent three full days destroying the Irminsul in 772 CE. Not hours. Three days of sustained effort to dismantle a wooden pillar. That is not the effort you put into removing an inconvenient object. That is the effort you put into destroying...
Norse
Before you get to the gods, there are the wights. That is not a modern pagan invention. It is what the Norse and Germanic sources say. The world these people lived in was not divided into a natural layer and a supernatural one that required special access. It was, at...
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