Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Norway’s Wardruna are leading the charge. Myth and legend is ...

It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicology PhD student at CU Boulder exploring the ways in which music is used to construct identity in and of the Nordic countries, including traditional music styles, heavy ...

Ve and Vili and Odin looked at each other and spoke of what was needful to do, there in the void of Ginnungagap. They spoke of the universe, and of life, and of the future. Odin and Ve and Vili killed ...

Across the lands of the frozen north, the Norse “gods” are returning. Nordic paganism is now Iceland’s fastest-growing religion. From 570 members in 2002, the “association of the faith of the Æsir” — ...