In light of the recent changes to military religious preference codes, Odin’s Warrior Tribe strongly recommends that all Heathens — especially active-duty military, veterans, law enforcement, and first responders — prepare a will and written instructions for their next of kin on how they wish to be buried and how their funeral services should be conducted in the Heathen tradition. This should be part of your personal readiness. It may be attached to your will, placed with your important...

When we read the Icelandic sagas, we are not merely following old stories of quarrels, marriages, voyages, and killings. We are probing into the lives of people in the sagas: their loyalties, their pride, their errors, their moments of greatness, and the hidden wounds that drive them. Few figures reward that kind of close attention more than Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir of Laxdæla saga. She is one of the most vivid women in all Old Norse literature: beautiful, brilliant, proud, wounded, calculating,...

Animals were never merely background scenery in the Norse world. They pulled carts and sledges, guarded homes, hunted beside men, carried riders across land and battlefield, kept ships and storehouses free of vermin, provided food and clothing, and stood at the edge of myth as companions of gods, omens of fate, and powers in their own right. They also accompanied often into the afterlife. To understand the Viking Age without animals is to misunderstand the living world in which Norse...