Lore and Literature

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

Last year I wrote a little on the meaning of St. Patrick's Day: Personal Reflections on St. Patrick's Day This post will give you...

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...

On my trip I visited Þ ingvellir. It was beautiful in the setting sun with the yellow grass, the rocks, the many branched river, and the dis...

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...