Something which helped enormously was that all these people spoke the same Norse language, and would have known their own Kingdoms under the names of Danmark, Vastergotland, Ostergotland and Svealand.Ĭolonies and footholds were established all over the place, from Greenland to England - where their heritage includes Norfolk and Humberside with many Norse-named villages in between. (The Swedes also ventured into Finland, which was not too impressed and mostly preferred its own gods.) And Iceland came into the equation and did its own Viking things from 800 AD. The Vikings who were Swedes traveled mostly eastwards, and the Danes and Norwegians traveled mostly westwards. So welcome to the Norse pantheon, which is not just Norway but the rest of Scandinavia - which includes Denmark and Sweden. I’ve got a great revenge planned.” “I’ll drink to that! Here, barmaid, five hundred drinking horns of Kvas please. My blood hit the ceiling! Just wait till tomorrow though. “Bjorn, when you took my head off with that double-headed axe - just fantastic! I didn’t see it coming at all. Then you spent all night carousing, feasting, getting roaring drunk and discussing the day’s fun. Here you could clash in battle all day long, your cleft limbs and cleavagings miraculously restored at the close of play. You had to die in battle first and be escorted by beautiful blonde Valkyries.
We could have listed them as Nordic, but ‘Norse’ sounds like the snorting of a giant battle stallion so we went for that. The red-blooded, rip-roaring, gung-ho Gods beloved by the Vikings. Godchecker's Holy Hit Parade of popular Gods is powered by GodRank™ Technology.
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