Northern Tales

A digital archive of Old Norse mythology and religion — the Eddas stanza by stanza, with primary sources, translations, and research; Swedish and English as parallel primary languages.

  • The Eddas

    The Poetic Edda (35 poems) and Snorri's Prose Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, Háttatal).

  • Stories

    Continuous reconstructions that cut across the fragments of the Eddas — the creation, the death of Baldr, Ragnarok.

  • Gods and beings

    Æsir, Vanir, jötnar, dwarves, elves, norns, valkyries — who they are and where they meet us in the text.

  • Places

    The nine worlds, Yggdrasil, Ginnungagap, Valhöll, Hel — the mythic geography.

  • Sources and manuscripts

    Codex Regius, Codex Upsaliensis, Codex Wormianus, Flateyjarbók — the manuscripts behind the text.

  • Glossary

    Terms that ought not be translated: seiðr, wyrd, ǫrlǫg, hamingja, hugr, fylgja, kenning.

The site is under construction. The editorial policy — three categories (A/B/C), a source requirement for every claim, primary sources before modern interpretation — is described under About the project.