Ahura Mazda was the main god of an ancient Persian religion called Zoroastrianism. The vikings had a lot of contact with other cultures, including Persia, via trade, so it’s not all that unlikely that some foreigners settled down in viking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That tapestry in the background is based on a real viking age tapestry, found in the Jämtland county in 1910. This is an anachronism, since the actual tapestry was made 200 years after this setting, buuuut, I coudn’t resist. Besides,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tröndelag is, as mentioned earlier, a Norweigan province, and Birka was a city on Sweden’s east coast that was an important trade center in the viking age.
In norse mythology, Folkvang was Freya’s realm. It was told that she took half of all dead warriors there, and some interpretations say that those that she took was the women.
Fact 1: Birch bark was commonly used like parchment by the vikings. Fact 2: Gårdarike was the viking’s name for western russia. Fact 3: Niflhel is, according to some interpretations, the lowest level of Hel, which could be concidered an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
