Jackson Crawford, director of CU’s Nordic Studies program, studies and translates Old Norse, a language spoken by medieval Scandinavians. Here the native Coloradan talks Vikings, videos and his ...

WHEN Mr. Longfellow declared that the Manobozho legends of the Chippeways formed an Indian Edda, he spoke as a poet, not as an ethnologist. In the same spirit they might with as much justice have been ...

About the book: The Wanderer's Hávamál features Jackson Crawford’s complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hávamál, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing ...

You may have read that this weekend is supposed to mark the coming of Ragnarok, the violent “Viking Apocalypse” prophesied in Old Norse poetry. But the mythical apocalypse that inspired Game of ...

Lovers of fantasy and science-fiction are often defensive about the escapism inherent in these genres, and are eager to push back by insisting that the greatest of these novels come out of serious ...