This book offers a new perspective on the" otherworlds" of medieval literature. These
fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns …

The nornir or norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas
about fate in Old Norse tradition. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of …

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic
books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings' So the company …

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and
are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length …

In 1981, as part of her pioneering work into the early modern Scottish witch trials, Christina
Larner published a map of their geographical density. 1 It showed a marked decrease from …

This article addresses the changing meaning of the word álfr (plural álfar) in Norse-Icelandic
from the Middle Ages to the present day and notes that, contrary to the myth of a continuity in …

The varied nature of Iron Age religious sites in Scandinavia has been the cause of much
scholarly debate, particularly in terms of their continuity and centralization—or lack thereof …

This article argues that the Old English Judith exhibits a more complex and ambiguous
relationship to the heroic tradition than is generally admitted. It explores the functions and …

Fairy-stories are not in normal English usage stories about fairies or elves, but stories about
Fairy, that is Faërie, the realm or state in which fairies have their being. Faërie contains …

Margaret Murray (1863–1963) was a major figure in the creation of professional
archaeology, president of the Folklore Society, and advocate for women's rights. Her popular …