Viking legends
Scandinavian heroic tales
Viking legends are the myths, sagas, and heroic tales from medieval Scandinavian culture—stories of gods like Odin and Thor, heroes like Sigurd, and the cosmology of Yggdrasil and Ragnarök.
These narratives were preserved in Old Norse texts like the Eddas and Icelandic sagas.
The phrase often appears in discussions of Norse mythology's influence on modern fantasy: The show draws heavily on Viking legends.
- sea raidersWaterborne attackers of ships
- ValkyriesNorse battle maidens
- OdinChief Norse deity
- Skaldic poetryMedieval Scandinavian court verse
- Erik the RedNorse Greenland colonizer
Leif Erikson · Varangian Guard · Thor · Ragnarok · Ginnungagap · Valhalla · berserker rage · blood eagle · Loki · Norns · Harald Hardrada · mead hall · rune stones · Norse gods · Freyja · Fenrir · Sigurd · Beowulf
- Nordic folkloretrolls, elves, Norse mythology, Norse gods, Odin
- Norse literaturesagas, Icelandic sagas, Norse sagas, kennings, Old Norse
- Norse mythologyThor, Odin, Loki, Valhalla, Ragnarok
Viking legendsGreek myths
Ancient Hellenic traditional stories
Roman mythology · Egyptian mythology · Hindu mythology · Chinese mythology · African folklore
Viking legendshistorical record
Preserved account of past
archaeological evidence · primary sources · verified accounts · eyewitness testimony · chronicle
Viking legendsscience fiction
Speculative fiction with technological themes
futurism · modern literature · contemporary fiction · speculative fiction