Archaeologists have discovered 35 miniature gold-foil depictions of Norse gods tucked inside the remnants of a pagan temple in Norway. The gold foils, which are flat and as thin as a piece of ...

Dozens of ancient gold-foil figures depicting images of Norse gods have been ... of Frøy and Gerd, a god and goddess of fertility — were discovered at the pagan temple site where experts ...

Experts say it was used to worship Old Norse gods some ... make sacrifices to Norse gods such as Odin and Thor – and archaeologists have found evidence of the pagan structure.

A pagan celebrant has held a Viking-inspired living funeral for her mother, complete with Danish pastries, apple candles and references to Norse gods, after the sudden death of a close friend made ...

Odin is one of the primary gods of Norse mythology, a pre-Christian pagan belief system central to Viking society. “This is the smoking gun for Odin’s presence in Scandinavia as early as the ...

Volnard gets curious about God (think of George ... Ways” posits that pagan and puritan roots had already begun to fuse. Self-sustaining and well armed, Stone’s Norse heroes embody an overlap ...

The first major temple devoted to the Norse gods since the Viking Age will begin construction in Iceland this month, the Guardian reports. The temple, which will be of circular shape, will be ...

But followers of Ásatrú, or Norse paganism, still honor their gods, and in Iceland, where Ásatrú is the second-most-practiced religion after Christianity, a new temple to the Norse deities is ...

I've briefly explored both, but most of my knowledge of these old pagan tales comes from Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, an excellent book that retells many of the Norse myths while making them ...