Viking Lore — Odin

10 Surprising Facts About the Vikings

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10 Surprising Facts About the Vikings

Video on-screen text:   1. The days of the week are named after Viking gods: Odin = WednesdayThor = ThursdayTyr = TuesdayFrigg = Friday   2. Vikings never wore horned helmets Christians in Europe added the detail to make the Vikings appear more barbaric and pagan, like Satan 3. Many words today have Viking originsSome are: snort, lump, scrawny, and anger 4. Vikings had great hygieneGrooming tools are commonly found artifacts in excavations and were some of the most commonly used Viking tools 5. They did not call themselves "Vikings"Other nations referred to them as the Norse, Norsemen, or Danes. 6. Vikings were...

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A History of Necklaces

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A History of Necklaces

Many people are surprised to learn that the invention of the necklace actually predates the invention of the first writing in Near Eastern civilizations. The earliest known necklaces hail from the Stone Age, making them some 40,000 years old, and they were crafted entirely from natural materials such as vine or animal sinew.

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Vikings Valhalla: A New Series on the Horizon

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Vikings Valhalla: A New Series on the Horizon

If you are one of the many fans who wished that the show Vikings continued pass season six, you might just have your wish soon. Newly released is information about a spin off season called Valhalla coming later in the year 2022.

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Customer Favorite: Wolf Totem Pendant Necklace

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Customer Favorite: Wolf Totem Pendant Necklace

Wolves are known for their keen intelligence, graceful strength, and their unbreakable bond to their family - their pack mates. Wolves live in challenging environments, but still, succeed as apex predators. What qualities do you think are admirable in this animal? Ancient Vikings respected wolves for these enduring qualities and relied on this animal as a sacred totem. Just as wolves hunt in packs and use their intellect to trap much larger prey, Vikings would use clever hunting methods to trap larger prey for their family group. Sometimes ancient Vikings even had encounters with wolves which would have been a...

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Ansuz Meaning of the Runes Latin A

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Ansuz Meaning of the Runes Latin A

Ansuz: (A: The As, ancestral god, i.e. Odin.) A revealing message or insight, communication. Signals, inspiration, enthusiasm, speech, true vision, power of words and naming. Blessings, the taking of advice. Good health, harmony, truth, wisdom. Ansuz Reversed or Merkstave: Misunderstanding, delusion, manipulation by others, boredom. Vanity and grandiloquence. (Odin is a mighty, but duplicitous god. He always has his own agenda.) Ansuz in the A of the Nordic runic alphabet, and stands for Odin, the ancestral god, who is said to give first humans the gifts of life and intelligence (this is why Ansuz is sometimes called Odin’s breath). This...

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