All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.

“My character is Baldur,” announced Steven Larsen, “son of Odin, brother of Thor, and I bring light to the world and happiness and joy.” Enter the Yule Viking Festival: a December event dedicated to ...

A centuries-old gold disc found in Denmark has revealed the earliest known mention of the Norse god Odin at least 150 years earlier than any previous inscription. The disc, known as a bracteate ...

Bracelets and necklaces often feature images of Norse gods like Odin, Freya, and Thor. The bracelets Bruunsgaard discovered appear to have had a socioeconomic meaning, too. The bracelets were made ...

What it tells us about the past: This cast silver figurine of a Valkyrie — a mythological maiden who assists Odin, the Norse god of war — is a unique example of Viking Age metalworking that provides ...

Researchers have discovered that an ancient gold disc found in southern Denmark includes the earliest written reference to the Norse god Odin, revealing that he was worshiped up to 150 years ...

The discovery of the oldest recorded mention of the god Odin – usually known from much later stories of Norse mythology – pushes the age of this deity back at least 150 years to the early 5th ...

COPENHAGEN — Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020.

But that's a poor picture based largely on Viking portrayals in the 19th century, when they featured in European art either as romantic ... Germanic gods like Wotan (Odin) wearing winged helmets ...