Explore the History of the Old Norse Religion

Welcome, Last chance! This week is a new free Audiobook launch,  “Norse Paganism for Beginners” History Brought Alive provides you with a single credible source detailing Norse Paganism, its history, beliefs, people, and what it looks like in our modern world. This Audiobook has been written using a variety of scholarly articles and books containing […]

Explore The History of The Old Norse Religion

Hey there! As a subscriber we wish to introduce our new Audiobook “Norse Paganism for Beginners” – currently free. Let us take you back in time. When the Norse people lived in an enchanted and sacred world. A time famously shrouded in mystery, magic, and witchcraft. Norse Paganism has survived the centuries, the rise and […]

Norse Paganism for Beginners (new & free Audiobook)

Welcome, This week is a new FREE Audiobook launch, “Norse Paganism for Beginners” Discover The History, Mythology & Practices of Norse Paganism Reply now for your FREE Download Code We would appreciate your review on Audible by October 11. And here is the book on Audible USA: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BB8D4YDQ UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BB8C7WQN Best regards, History Brought Alive […]

Everyday Life in Viking Times

When Vikings weren’t waging war in other countries, they were planting and harvesting their crops. They were primarily hunting, farming, and fishing people. Although they traded goods and services with Europe, most Norse people were subsistence farmers, which meant that whatever they grew, hunted, or killed, they used for themselves and their families. So given […]

Slavery During the Viking Age

Many historians turn to the belief that Viking raids were assembled first and foremost to enslave the local people and take them back to their country to make use of or trade with. Mainly women were captured, but men and children were also taken. The slave trade focused on the continent of Britain but also […]

Vikings and The Celts

During the Bronze Age, the Celts and Vikings were the largest groups to inhabit the northern world, and the fusion between the two was inevitable. The Celts inhabited northern England, Scotland, and Ireland but also spread to Northern Italy and Spain. Some think that due to similarity in language and culture there is a genetic […]

Vikings and The Influence of Christianity

It was about the time of the turn of the millennium when the first seeds of Christianity began to be sewn into the Viking culture. In 995, King Olav Tryggvasson constructed the first church on Norwegian soil. He survived being gravely injured in battle, and then returned to Norway where he attempted to introduce Christianity […]

TRAVEL back to the VIKING TIME!

The Beginning of the Raids. The Viking period is supposed to have begun during the reign of Germanic warlords and barbarians in Europe, and around 200 to 300 years after the fall of the Roman Empire. After hundreds of years of Roman control, the globe had altered dramatically at this point.  Beginning in the year […]

The Norse God: Thor

The god of thunder, often seen as the hero of the common man, was the most worshiped god during the pre-Christian Scandinavian Era. He is associated with strength, the protection of mankind, and storms. The characteristics most valuable to the Norse people often surrounded Thor, like honor, loyalty, and the unshakeable sense of duty. It […]

More Than Just Vikings

Vikings were those who sailed the northern Atlantic seas to run raids or settle in new lands. The word Viking is technically the verb for “making a sea voyage” in the Old Norse language, so the Norsemen would “go Viking.”  The period is now 800 C.E. and the Norsemen have mastered shipbuilding in a way […]