Described in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, Skadi is depicted as a fierce giantess whose skill in hunting and skiing made her an especially formidable figure. Her mythology is deeply intertwined ...

Thor as depicted by sculptor Hermann Freund around 1828. Thor's popularity within the stories of the Prose Edda grew in the 19th century, and led to a number of depictions in art and poetry.

Only two literary works, the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, and some sagas were known to have survived the ages. Historians are now looking at Vikings in a different light because of recent ...

At least it is in Norse mythology. Told of primarily in the 13th century Old Norse texts, the Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda, Ragnarok is the equivalent of armageddon in Norse ...

Two medieval sources provide most of what we know about Norse myths and their key actors, the 13th-century Icelandic “Prose Edda” and the “Poetic Edda,” though other clues emerge from ...