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This Week in History: Althing

This Week in History: Althing

by David Tollen | Jun 26, 2020 | The Postclassical Age (Medieval History)

This week in 930 CE, the chieftains of Iceland established the Althing, which remains the country’s parliament. It’s the world’s oldest surviving legislature. Northmen (sometimes called Vikings) had arrived on the island about 60 years before, and now they set about...

Snow White May Have Begun as a Sexy Goddess

by David Tollen | Sep 26, 2015 | The Postclassical Age (Medieval History), The Recent Modern Age

In the myths of the Norse and other Germanic peoples, Freya is the beautiful goddess of sex, love, and fertility — and of war and death. She drives a chariot pulled by cats, treasures the pig as her sacred animal, and wears a powerful golden necklace called...
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