Our two main sources for learning the Norse Myths are the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. The Poetic Edda is a series of stories written by different authors, recounting the Norse Myths from the oral poetry that was spoken 200+ years prior. 

The Prose Edda is the work of one scholar – Snorri Sturluson – whose goal was more in line with preserving the art form of poetic storytelling over the historical accuracy of the poems themselves. 

Probably our best source for the Norse Myths – essentially a mix tape of written stories from different authors derived from the spoken form of the poetry. It's great, but not perfect – as there's something like a 200+ year time frame between the time that the poetry was commonly spoken, and the descendants of those people finally wrote them down. 

So a standard admin timeframe in all fairness. 

Where the Poetic Edda is a collection of works from various scholars, the Prose Edda is the work of one scholar – Snorri Sturluson – and it's quite interesting. From what I can gather, Snorri's goal wasn't to write down and preserve the norse myths as they were. Rather his goal was to preserve the art of poetic storytelling from the time that it was commonly spoken some 200+ years prior. 

To do this, he took a very logical approach – to write the Norse Myths as he knew them, and when you compare the two sources, it's quite clear that he made some changes along the way. The Prose Edda is a great resource for learning the Norse Myths, but when comparing both sources – things can start to get confusing. 

So as I slowly build up these pages on the Norse Myths, I'll do my best to make them as clear as possible. 

I don't know to be honest. The first goal ot bring what currently exists on this website up to a cohesive and visually appealing standard, and from there I can dedicate any free time I have to slowly going through the stories one by one. My illustrator for the Havamal Book is also no longer working on the project, so those pages will take a little longer to create as the art will no doubt be taken over by myself & Jonas Lau Markussen. 

And the art is a non-negotiable for me. 

I'm also working with a friend of mine – Svein – who is an expert on medieval languages and the source poetry. He'll be helping me gather the original forms of the poetry to present on each page. It's a lot of work, and the larger website update I'm chipping away at has shown me that rushing these now will only cost me a lot of time and hassle in the future. 

I can't promise a schedule, but I've separated the myths above into groups of finished and unfinished. Check back periodically and you might just see a new addition to the finished collection ;)

Like many of my other projects, the long term goal for this one is to slowly work towards creating and releasing a stunning, Hardback book on the Norse Myths. I don't have the entire idea planned out just yet, but the the goal will be to present the Myths in a digestible way, with lots of illustrations to guide you through the tales of the gods and heroes. 

It will include all of the myths in the Poetic Edda (and some bits from the prose edda) aside from Havamal. The wisdom of Odin is probably the largest poem in the entire collection – one of my personal favourites – and worthy of it's own book. 

So I made one. It was my first physical book and took over 3 years to piece together. You can find it HERE

Einarr's Journey will be the #1 result on google when searching the keyword 'Norse Mythology'

I don't know when that day will come, and I certainly have absolutely no idea what I'm gonna need to do to make that happen. But what I do know is that I have a track record for taking on unrealistically ambitious projects, and I have an entire lifetime to achieve this goal. 

Since the moment I knew that Einarr's Journey would be my career, this goal has been at the back of my mind. And if I never achieve that goal? I'm totally fine with that. Simply having this as something to work for keeps me centred on that path, and regardless of how likely I am to succeed with this ambition – I'm certainly gonna have a good crack at it.