The Viking Dragon Blog

We first met Kai at the Gudvangen Viking Festival in Norway where was hand tattooing the Vikings there.   Then at the Viking Rock festival in Gudvangen, Norway in 2010 we saw him perform live...

Returning to Hreidmar’s house, Loki showed Odin the treasure and the ring, but concealed the curse. Odin saw that the ring was fair, and he resolved to keep it for himself.

In the world of the Norse myths, great tragedies sometimes grew from small mistakes. Take, for instance, the tale of Andvari’s curse, which shadowed the lives of the gods and of many generation...

    'Balder’s Death' described how the trickster god Loki duped the blind god Hoder into killing Odin and Frigga's son Balder, the fairest of the gods. Balder’s death grieved most of his fellow...

Balder, son of Odin and Frigga, was the best beloved of the Norse gods. His beauty was radiant, his graciousness was unmatched, and his wise judgments were never disputed by his high-tempered fello...

   The Norns are female beings that that live in a hall by the well of Urd. They throw lots, carve runes, water the world tree Yggdrasil to keep it healthy and green and they weave the fates of al...

  One day as Agnar and Geirröth, the young sons of a mortal king, fished from a small boat, a wind drove them away from the shore and across the great sea. In the night their boat wrecked on...

   Gleipnir is its name. A chain wrought by dwarves. A marvel created from the sound of a cat’s footsteps, the beard of a woman, the roots of mountains, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of a ...

Mead drinking was an essential aspect of Viking religion and culture. Mead was commonly drunk from a drinking horn, fashioned from the horn of a bull, as is depicted in many Viking carvings and a...