I am a novelist, and teach creative writing. In this discipline ... Yggdrasill stands at the centre of the Old Norse universe. Its branches reach up into the heavens; its roots go down into ...

In writing it, Gaiman has provided an enchanting ... It’s perhaps less the notion of sharing than the possible changing of these Old Norse stories that sparked a mini-controversy last fall ...

Despite their power, few words at the time made it from Old Norse into the English language. Simply put, English wasn’t a language that budged easily. At the time, English had about 25,000 words, and ...

Thorn is still used in modern Icelandic, which is also derived from Old Norse. Thorn is the reason ... these words has been removed. In ancient writing techniques, two u's were put together ...

The new findings, published in the journal iScience on Friday, used advanced DNA analysis to connect the identity of the remains to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text called the Sverris Saga.

Despite their power, few words at the time made it from Old Norse into the English language. Simply put, English wasn't a ...