Tag: Andrea Maraschi

Fimbulvetr: When the Medieval World Saw the Sun Go Dark

How a mysterious climate disaster in AD 536 may lie behind the Norse myth of Fimbulvetr, when medieval people believed the sun itself had gone dark.

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A look at the cannibalistic enchantment in Hrólfs saga kraka and what it reveals about magic, sympathetic rites, and late medieval Icelandic culture.