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    Midgard is located between Asgard, the realm of the gods, and Helheim, the realm of the dead.

    Midgard: The realm of mortals
    Culture&religion
    Jörmungandr appears in Norse myths on several occasions, often as the adversary of Thor, the god of thunder.

    Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent: The harbinger of Ragnarök
    Culture&religion
    The symbol of Mjöllnir was often used in designs of pendants.

    Mjöllnir, Thor's hammer: An important religious and cultural symbol in the Viking Age
    Culture&religion
    Ragnarök is often described as the final battle.

    Ragnarök: The final battle and accompanying calamities
    Midgard is located between Asgard, the realm of the gods, and Helheim, the realm of the dead.

    Midgard: The realm of mortals

    In Norse mythology, Midgard is the realm where humans - the mortals - reside. 
    Jörmungandr appears in Norse myths on several occasions, often as the adversary of Thor, the god of thunder.

    Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent: The harbinger of Ragnarök
    The symbol of Mjöllnir was often used in designs of pendants.

    Mjöllnir, Thor's hammer: An important religious and cultural symbol in the Viking Age
    Ragnarök is often described as the final battle.

    Ragnarök: The final battle and accompanying calamities

    Christianity
    Christianity had, by the turn of the second millennium CE, taken a formidable stranglehold in Scandinavia.

    Vikings and Christianity: Twilight of the Old Gods, 1000 - 1060s CE

    By the beginning of the 11th century CE, Viking societies in Scandinavia were undergoing seismic social change.

    Christianity
    Christianity had, by the turn of the second millennium CE, taken a formidable stranglehold in Scandinavia.

    Vikings and Christianity: Twilight of the Old Gods, 1000 - 1060s CE

    By the beginning of the 11th century CE, Viking societies in Scandinavia were undergoing seismic social change.

    Christianity

     The Christianization of Scandinavia was a slow process that ran concurrently with the Viking Age.

    Vikings and Christianity: The formative years, 793 - 1000 CE

    Today many Scandinavian countries consistently rank as being some of the most atheistic societies in the world. For more than half a century, Christianity has been on the wane, along with increasing amounts of the absence of belief. However, this was not always the case.
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    Language and literature
    The runic alphabet was believed to have originated in the late Nordic Iron Age, sometime within the first century of the first millennium CE.

    An introduction: What is the meaning behind Norse runes?

    Only with the completion of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the 12th century CE did the wholescale replacement of the Norse runic alphabet ensue.

    Language&literature
    The runic alphabet was believed to have originated in the late Nordic Iron Age, sometime within the first century of the first millennium CE.

    An introduction: What is the meaning behind Norse runes?

    Only with the completion of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the 12th century CE did the wholescale replacement of the Norse runic alphabet ensue.

    Language&literature

     Runes were mostly carved in stone or wood.

    What are Viking runes?

    To answer a very simple question of what runes are – they are the letters of the runic alphabet. Germanic tribes have developed the runic writing system to be able to document the language in written form. 
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    Life
    One of the most coveted, and lucrative, items of trade for the Vikings was the white Gyrfalcon, whose habitat is the far Arctic climes of the world.

    The role of falcons in Viking societies

    Peoples in Viking societies were no strangers to forming symbiotic relationships with animals.

    Life
    One of the most coveted, and lucrative, items of trade for the Vikings was the white Gyrfalcon, whose habitat is the far Arctic climes of the world.

    The role of falcons in Viking societies

    Peoples in Viking societies were no strangers to forming symbiotic relationships with animals.

    Life

     Viking women traveled to settle in far-off places.

    Viking women traveled too, genetic study reveals

    This article was written by Daniel Zadik, Postdoctoral researcher in genetics at the University of Leicester.
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    Old Norse religion
    The only tale we have of Baldur, from the Norse sagas, is about his untimely death.

    The murder of a Norse god: Who killed Baldur?

    The story of who killed Baldur, ripped from the Norse sagas, reveals that even before the "Nordic Noir" crime boom of the past two decades, Nordic peoples loved a good murder mystery...

    Old Norse religion
    The only tale we have of Baldur, from the Norse sagas, is about his untimely death.

    The murder of a Norse god: Who killed Baldur?

    The story of who killed Baldur, ripped from the Norse sagas, reveals that even before the "Nordic Noir" crime boom of the past two decades, Nordic peoples loved a good murder mystery...

    Old Norse religion

     Midgard is located between Asgard, the realm of the gods, and Helheim, the realm of the dead.

    Midgard: The realm of mortals

    In Norse mythology, Midgard is the realm where humans - the mortals - reside. 
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