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.”
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An introduction to Middle World
Scandinavia in prehistory was mostly a carpet of northern forest interspersed by sheets of water with a climate of long winters and short summers. This landscape and climate continues across the eastern extension of the North European Plain and it is necessary to travel far to the south to discover a break in this uniformity.Continue reading “An introduction to Middle World”