By: William Cobbs | 2010-06-01 | Culture At about age 3 and one-half, I had mastered under the patience of my Grandmother, my Mother, and my Aunt Doris (all teachers) the simple orthography of tiny child books with geat lines an inch high sayingDog is nice. Cat is nice. Are YOU nice? My grandmother wanted better things. read more
By: Gwendolyn Austen | 2010-05-28 | Short Stories The Legend of Baldur the Beautiful Of all the gods in the fair city of Asgard, Baldur was the best loved. He was not strong, like Thor, nor was he swift like Thialfi, but of all the gods, he was the most gentle, kind, and the most beautiful. He had all the qualities worthy of admiration. read more
By: .aLfie .vera .mella | 2005-02-10 | Culture Complex but interesting, Norsemythology is the pre-Christian religion of the Danish, Icelandic read more
By: Jean C. Fisher | 2010-05-31 | Culture THE GODDESS FREYA: Shapeshifter, Mistress of Cats and Queen of the Valkyries She-Falcon! The moon sails through the trees. Freyja! I call the weeper of gold! Lady of Sorcery! I stand before you unafraid. Keeper of the Brisingamen! Reveal to me secrets of knot and braid. read more
By: Rebecca Schlofner | 2010-06-01 | Culture HEL FIRE OF THE NORSEMEN The influence of the Norsemen on every day life is widespread, but can be little known. Norsemen had an oral tradition, offered up feast holidays, and introduced us to the man being the head of the household. read more
By: Ellis Peterson | 2010-10-26 | Spirituality I met Odin the All-Father of the Norse Gods on a snowy night in Pennsylvania. The wisdom he shared read more
By: Shane Dayton | 2010-06-04 | Culture Virtually every western religion or mythos has an end of the world story, an episode in which all the evil of the world comes against all the good, and man and god alike often suffer and even die. read more
By: FAUSTUS CROW | 2010-06-04 | Religion MULTIVERSE WORLD TREE YGGDRASSILL It has been noted by many scholars such as Mircea Eliade that the ''World-Tree'' motif is quite prevalent of Spiritual symbolic expression amongst many varied cultures around the world. read more