Norse
When Christian missionaries encountered the Norse account of the world’s end, they recognized it immediately as something like their own apocalyptic tradition. Fire, destruction, the death of gods, the end of the present world order. They were not entirely wrong...
Norse
“Wyrd bith ful araed.” Fate is inexorable. That line comes from the Old English poem The Wanderer, and it is one of the most famous sentences in the entire Old English corpus. Scholars and practitioners quote it regularly. Most of them do not explain what...
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