but it may be that an earlier pagan superstition became confused with the Christian tradition: Mistletoe was supposedly sacred to the Celtic druids, and it appears in a Norse legend. Mistletoe ...

Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

As Robert Blumetti observes in The Norse Gods and Their Myths ... According to Davidson, the influence of Germanic paganism in early times when “heathen Germans believed in fierce female ...