In the Eddic sources, the World Serpent is most often named in two intricately linked forms: Jörmungandr (a name carried in the prose tradition and scholarly usage) Jǫrmungandr (Old Norse) and Miðgarðsormr (“Midgard Serpent,” literally the serpent associated with Miðgarðr, the human world) Snorri’s Gylfaginning explicitly glosses Jörmungandr as “the Midgard Serpent,” making the identity unambiguous in the prose record. What matters in the Eddic portrayal is not only that the serpent is...

Visit to Vrak Museum and "Vikings Before Vikings": Stockholm, August 2025   In August 2025, the Chieftain walked into Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm and into an exhibition that quietly rearranged the internal map of the Viking Age. Vikings Before Vikings does not argue that Lindisfarne (793) didn’t happen, or that the raid shouldn’t remain the clean “start line” for the Viking Age in popular history. It simply does something more dangerous to our assumptions: it puts physical evidence...

In the Norse worldview, strength was not merely physical. Power was not always about domination. And this power was not just muscle or arms. In the language of our ancestors, there existed a deeper word for sacred strength — one rooted in life, in will, in divine sanction. That word is MEGIN.   Megin (Old Norse) refers to innate might, a life-force or spiritual power that lives within a being, a place, or even an object. It is the animating strength behind heroic deeds, godly action, and...