Europe
Pagan Balts imported horses from Scandinavia for religious rituals
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The Pagans of the Baltic region appear to have acquired horses for ritual offerings sometimes at great expense and sea travel from Scandinavian Christian neighbors.
Paganism
New research challenges belief about medieval feasts
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New research suggests that the stereotype of medieval kings feasting ostentatiously on meat and alcohol while peasants starved may be overblown.
Paganism
New Merlin tale discovered in archives
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TWH reports on a newly discovered version of the Merlin Story that may create new connections in the Arthurian legends.
Paganism
Column: Creating a Pagan History in Crusader Kings 2
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The message arrives in Uppland, news from Theodric’s lands far to the south: the Irminsul has been destroyed, burned to ashes by the demon Charlemagne. The implications become clear – this latest pillaging of one of the Heathen faith’s sacred sites foretells the fall of Saxony into King Karl’s burgeoning empire, and a crippling blow to the power and influence of the gods of the north. I look to to my own lands, to the grand temple at Uppsala within my capital; like the Irminsul, this temple represents one of the faith’s strongholds. Could Charlemagne’s armies strike so far into Scandinavia? Could Sviþjod withstand that which Saxony could not?