The Canon of the Aesir

The full story, from the void to the rebirth

What follows is Northern Tales' own canon: an attempt to capture the humour, the rawness, and the feel of the Old Norse stories as they may have sounded by the fires a thousand years ago.

The stories are real. Every event, every name, every turn has its basis in the Eddas and the Icelandic manuscripts. But the order is our own, and the details carry the freedoms that belong to a story. We have woven together fragments from different poems, built bridges between episodes that stand alone in the sources, and sometimes chosen one version's detail over another's.

This is not an academic reconstruction. It is a saga.

  1. 1 The Void and the Blood
  2. 2 The Wall, the Mare, and the Eight-Legged Foal
  3. 3 Odin's Hunger
  4. 4 The Mead of Poetry
  5. 5 The Offspring
  6. 6 The Bond and the Hand
  7. 7 The Hammer and the Dress
  8. 8 The Deception at Utgard
  9. 9 The Catch and the Stone Giant
  10. 10 Apples and Trickery
  11. 11 Love and the Threat
  12. 12 The Feast that Went Wrong
  13. 13 The Light Goes Out
  14. 14 Venom and Chains
  15. 15 The Fimbul Winter
  16. 16 Ragnarök