The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

This cosmic tree held up the whole Norse universe, so the implication was that any dead people passing on to Niflheim were distracting Nidhogg from trying to bring down the world. This demon of the ...

it was one of nine worlds that made up the ancient Norse cosmology. According to legend, the nine realms surrounded and spread out from the Yggdrasil, a sacred cosmic tree at the centre of the ...

and were able to weave in links between Norse mythology and the nature. The sacred tree Yggdrasil was said to be the centre of the cosmos, and reflects the continuing importance of forests in ...

Not surprisingly, this era, during which the Norse perfected longship design ... had made at least one successful crossing of the North Sea, for tree-ring analysis of its oak timbers revealed ...

Fate was overseen by the Norns, Norse fates, who lived at the base of Yggdrasil, near the Well of Destiny, one of the three wells that feed the world tree. There, they carve destiny into the tree ...