Norse mythology comprises a vast collection of myths and stories which were central to the culture and religion of the ...

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Nostalgia can do strange things to people of a certain age. For me it’s a mixture of melancholy and irritation, and those ...

Adam Kirsch’s ‘On Settler Colonialism’ captures the futility of the anti-Israel ideology—but undersells its danger.

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As Justin Welby leaves office, Martyn Whittock explores the early medieval history that explains the authority structure of ...

Now we come to, quite possibly, the simplest argument that I’ve encountered against learning this amazing language and ...

(This includes my own experiment in novel-writing, which is working firmly within this Celtic-Germanic-Arthurian ... s available in European history and mythology. But for the creative world ...