Bronze Thor’s hammer recently found in Viborg, Denmark. 𐃏

After her husband was executed in 1343, Jeanne de Clisson sold her estates, bought warships, and launched a personal campaign of revenge against the French crown. Known as the “Lioness of Brittany,” she spent years attacking French ships in the English Channel. Her fleet

Vikings made it famous… but they weren’t the first. Long before Norse explorers reached Greenland, the island had already been inhabited for thousands of years by Paleo-Inuit cultures. These early groups, including the Saqqaq and later the Dorset peoples, migrated from Arctic

#FolkloreSunday According to an old Norwegian folk belief, salt gained magical properties during Easter. This magical salt, also known as "påskesalt" (Easter salt), was put in the cow bells to protect the cattle from being stolen by the hulders, otherworldly nymph-like

Vacker utstyrsel till hästar med dekorerade beslag, sporrar och bett – den arkeologiska undersökningen från Sylta i Västmanland bjöd på spektakulära vikingatida fynd som nu visas i utställningen "Älskade hästar" på Historiska museet. svenskhistoria.se/aktuell-arkeol… #svhist

Trollkyrkja Snasent sted som er verdt et besøk. Lett tur i og for seg, men hodelykt og evnen til å bøye ryggen er et must for å gå inn

Lovely Iron Age bronze raven head drinking horn terminal recently found in Aarhus, Denmark. ᚨ

In Scandinavian folklore, the Huldra is a seductive forest creature. Huldra derives from the Norwegian language, meaning 'covered' or 'secret'. Seen from the front she is a stunningly beautiful, naked female being with long hair; from behind she is hollow like an old tree trunk.

While a captain on a pirate ship typically took twice the crew's share,a captain in the regular British Royal Navy earned nearly 50 times as much as the lowest-ranking sailor-that's why so many sailors chose to join the pirates.

Their are no rules on what you practice, paganism can be a collective or a solitary path. As for myself, my ways are solitary/ hedge witch & a form of druidry. Unfortunately theirs 'elitists' out there that point the finger and mock you, fuck them! Stay true to yourselves.

ᚻᛖᛁᛚ ᚹᚩᛞᚪᚾ 🌲 Vieh stirbt. Sippen sterben. Letztendlich stirbt man selbst. Doch eines weiß ich, das immer lebt: Der Toten Tatenruhm! -Hávamál 76

An Old Norse heiti for wolf was vitnir.  “Vitr” means wise, from which wit derives; vitnir could mean wise one, fitting with their intelligence and connection with the wisest of the Gods. Troll-women often ride on wolves, signifying their role as bringers of hidden knowledge. ᚬ

Finns 🧡

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Gōdné morgen ealle, Hægl Wodnesdæg!

The berserkers were the most feared warriors in the Norse world. They fought in a trance-like state that made them impervious to pain, incapable of distinguishing friend from foe, and apparently immune to the bite of iron blades. They howled like animals. They bit their shields.