THE NORSE NOTEBOOK

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A well of wisdom under the roots of the world tree, an eye left as a pledge, and two ravens who fly out every dawn.

A wolf cub who grows too big, two fetters that snap, a soft band made of six impossible things, and one brave hand.

A hall that turns out to be a glove, an eating match against fire, a race against thought, and a drinking horn with its end in the sea.

A giant who thinks Thor is too small to help, an ox-head on a line, and a serpent so big it lies around the whole world.

An ox that will not cook, an eagle with a pole stuck to it, a goddess turned into a nut, and the gods growing old.

Three winters with no summer, a horn heard in every world, a silent god with a very thick shoe, and a green earth rising from the sea.

Odin and the wolf on one face, a figure with a cross on the other, and runes on the edge: a 10th-century stone in Andreas.

Snorri Sturluson, the Younger Edda and the Elder Edda: who wrote them down, when, and how they reached English readers.

What the Manx crosses and the old books can show, and the honest answer to whether the Norse gods were real.

From Vikings in the Irish Sea in 798 to a 3D model of Thorwald’s Cross in 2018, in dated steps.