Lore and Literature

Old English looks like Welsh and Icelandic combined.  And yet it looks a bit like German. Speaking of Welsh and Icelandic, double L, ...

In The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki there is a ring that is coveted greatly. The passion for this ring and the terms in which it is spoken of i...

I felt like they were my neighbors, my relations, my community, these Icelanders from a thousand years ago. I think it was the style in wh...

Somethings are just lost in translation, we all know that. If you can't read the original, somethings are found by reading translations ...

Although the sagas are translated to English they may use words that are not as familiar to us. The translation I'm reading currently us...

I recently started reading The Story of Burnt Njal , an Icelandic saga translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent. I'm not even half-way thro...

Once out of Reykjavik and the lava fields, there are horses basically everywhere you look. I felt like I was driving through Rohan as it i...

The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow has long been one of my favorite books. Allen French did a wonderful job when he wrote this book for j...

Here is a selection of Christmas greetings in several interesting languages, group loosely by family or similarities. Heughliche Winachten...