This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse ...

Most of the surviving information we have about Norse mythology and legendary Viking history was written by Snorri Sturluson, ...

I ultimately read Fafnir’s story as an invocation against loss. At his death, alien languages bequeath their secrets as his ...