As a warrior in Norse culture, it was your duty and your destiny to die in battle. The reward in the afterlife was great: fighting even more when Ragnarok rolled around. Until that time, you’d spend your time feasting and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Note: That is not a real quote, but rather the general impression that the works of Sturluson give the reader. Unfortunately for Sturluson, neither the new gods nor the old ones he’d written so much about bothered to intervene on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They knew it was going to happen, they just didn’t quite get the details right… Ragnarok, the end of the gods in Norse Mythology, is an incredibly bleak concept when you compare it to most modern religions. The final showdown […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…