Norse religious worship is the traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia in pre-Christian times. Norse religion was a folk...

are vague about Norse rituals, and many are invisible to us now even with the assistance of archaeology. Sources mention some rituals addressed to particular...

Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age North Germanic Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians), are known both from archaeology and from historical...

West Norse (Old West Nordic, often referred to as Old Norse), Old East Norse (Old East Nordic), and Old Gutnish. Old West Norse and Old East Norse formed...

Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing...

for writing but also in divination, magic, and as powerful symbols in Norse rituals, all together reflecting the interconnectedness of language, spirituality...

The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. The language...

Norse cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws by the ancient North Germanic peoples. The topic encompasses concepts from Norse mythology...

in pagan ritual. Norse sources include additional forms of divination such as a form of necromancy known as útiseta, as well as seiðr rituals. The evidence...

Berserker / Ulfheðinn In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers (Old Norse: berserkir) were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury...

spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn /ˈjɔːtʊn/; or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, they...

London: George Bell and Sons. Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515382-0...

Breslau: M. & H. Marcus. Lindow, John (2001). Norse mythology : a guide to the Gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195153828...

from Norse mythology. One religious practice sometimes found in Heathenry is seiðr, which has been described as "a particular shamanic trance ritual complex"...

Norse settlements in Greenland were established after 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. The settlers, known as Grænlendingar ('Greenlanders' in Icelandic)...

The Scandinavian clan or ætt/ätt (pronounced [ˈæːtː] in Old Norse) was a social group based on common descent, equivalent to a clan. In the absence of...

University Press. ISBN 0719025796 Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515382-0...

authentic historical practice. The blood-eagle ritual-killing rite appears in just two instances in Norse literature, plus oblique references some have...

Æsir (Old Norse; singular: áss) or ēse (Old English; singular: ōs) are gods in Germanic paganism. In Old Nordic religion and mythology, the precise meaning...

a misinterpretation of the stanza of Völuspá. In Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals and Beliefs, John Lindow talks about how Sindri might...

In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (/ˈvælkɪri/ VAL-kirr-ee or /vælˈkɪəri/ val-KEER-ee; from Old Norse: valkyrja, lit. 'chooser of the slain') is one of a host...

Old Norse: Fimbulvetr, lit. 'mighty winter') is the immediate prelude to the events of Ragnarök in Norse mythology. Fimbulvetr comes from Old Norse, meaning...

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (/ˈræɡnərɒk/ RAG-nə-rok or /ˈrɑːɡ-/ RAHG-; Old Norse: Ragnarǫk [ˈrɑɣnɑˌrɒk]) is a foretold series of impending events, including...

Everyman. ISBN 0-460-87616-3. Lindow, John (2002). Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983969-8...

Byzantium, are also considered related.[citation needed] Heathen hof Norse rituals Orchard (1997:173–174). Simek (2007:355) and Orchard (1997:173). "Maxims...

Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend (Orion Publishing Group) ISBN 0-304-34520-2 Lindow, John (2001) Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and...

John (2020c). Old Norse Mythology. Oxford University Press. Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A guide to the gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs. Oxford...

Proto-Norse (also called Ancient Nordic, Ancient Scandinavian, Ancient Norse, Primitive Norse, Proto-Nordic, Proto-Scandinavian and Proto-North Germanic)...

These are family trees of the Norse gods showing kin relations among gods and other beings in Nordic mythology. Each family tree gives an example of relations...

Old Norse 'sea'), Hlér (Old Norse 'sea'), or Gymir (Old Norse less clearly 'sea, engulfer'), is a jötunn and a personification of the sea in Norse mythology...