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Arts & Culture

Reykjavík unveils the manuscripts that gave us Norse mythology

By Eric O. Scott | December 8, 2024

A new exhibition of medieval Icelandic manuscripts showcases the earliest versions of many core texts of Norse mythology and Icelandic literature, including the Poetic Edda and the Saga of the Greenlanders, which details the Norse discovery of the New World.

Paganism

Column: Following the Wanderer

By Karl E. H. Seigfried | October 31, 2020

What does it mean to be wise? Is it better to be only “middling-wise,” or to accept the trouble of deeper wisdom? Karl Seigfried investigates passages from the Hávamál and ponders what they mean for those who seek to be wise.