Caucasus – Yggdrasil and Middle World

The Bronze Age origins of Norse Mythology.

To understand their surroundings these simple yet adaptable steppe people would have had origin stories explaining where they came from, how the snowy southern mountains were formed and what lay beyond them in the exotic lands further south. These and the old civilisations on the fertile valleys away to the west would be a sourceContinue reading “The Bronze Age origins of Norse Mythology.”

The Geography of Eastern Europe.

Scandinavia in prehistory was mostly a carpet of northern forest interspersed by sheets of water with a climate of long winters and short summers. The nine worlds of Norse mythology however are widely diverse with lands that are hugely contrasting yet can be close to one another. This would suggest that this world was inspiredContinue reading “The Geography of Eastern Europe.”