Drauginir: Revenants in Old Icelandic Sagas
It is this humanity in a monster that helps to show why these draugar fascinate us so much. The “others” that exist outside the boundaries of society: the weird old ladies that people label as evil witches, the misshapen, the “freaks” that Tod Browning made famous are funhouse mirror images of ourselves.
INTERVIEW: Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
An interview with author Nancy Brown on her latest medieval offering: “Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths”.
Sir Walter Scott and Eyrbyggja Saga
The influence of this interest in ancient Scandinavia on Scott’s own work has also been traced and examined in great detail…