Just like Greek tales of the ancient gods of Mount Olympus and the antics they got up to in the mortal world, Norse mythology comprises a vast collection of myths and stories which were central to ...

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray ... Thor's hammer - the sign of the Viking god Thor, and a boar's tusk.

As Robert Blumetti observes in The Norse Gods and Their Myths ... movement swept across Europe in the 19th century, ancient mythology found itself in vogue, as did an appetite for beauty, heroism ...