Bragi Boddason, known as Bragi the Old was a Norwegian skald active in the first half of the 9th century, the earliest known skald from whom verses have survived. Portions of his Ragnarsdrápa are pres

Svanhildr was the daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun in Germanic heroic legend who was noted for her beauty. Her death at the hands of her husband Ermanaric was told in many northern European stories, incl