Just about every American child learns in school that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America--or, more accurately, a small island in the Caribbean--in 1492. What isn’t always taught is that the ...
YAKIMA, Wash. -- The Norse myths are my favorites. They embody power, strength, cunning and moral ambiguity. The Norse gods are flawed and tragic, much like the people who worshipped them. Odin, the ...
In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, ...
Books about Vikings are riddled with stereotypes, the old and popular ones about horned helmets and Valkyries, the modern academic ones about peaceful traders and urban developers. Eleanor Rosamund ...
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Norse myths get a bold new life on screen
From small-town dramas with thunder gods to blood-soaked animated epics, Norse mythology is being reimagined for modern audiences in fresh, surprising ways. Netflix’s Ragnarok and Zack Snyder’s ...
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