The Norse Mythology Database
Every god, giant, creature, realm, artifact, myth, and primary source of the Norse world — searchable, cross-referenced, and cited back to the Eddas.
Explore the Nine Worlds
The database is organised into eight collections, every entry linked to its kin.
Gods & Goddesses
The Æsir and Vanir — Odin, Thor, Freyja, Loki, and the whole divine family of the North.
36 entries →ᚦGiants & Jötnar
The old powers beyond the fence — from primordial Ymir to Surtr, who ends the world.
22 entries →ᚹCreatures & Beasts
Fenrir, the World Serpent, eight-legged Sleipnir, and the beasts that live in the world-tree.
23 entries →ᛗThe Nine Realms
From golden Asgard to frozen Niflheimr — the cosmology of the Norse universe.
9 entries →ᛏArtifacts & Treasures
Mjölnir, Gungnir, Gleipnir — the dwarf-forged treasures that arm and doom the gods.
16 entries →ᛉMyths & Events
The creation, the death of Baldr, the binding of the wolf, and Ragnarök itself.
16 entries →ᛋHeroes & Legends
Sigurðr, Brynhildr, Ragnar Loðbrók — the dragon-slayers, shield-maidens, and doomed kings of the sagas.
19 entries →ᛟCosmology & Concepts
Yggdrasil, Valhalla, the norns, seiðr, and the runes — the ideas that hold the myths together.
22 entries →ᚱSources & Texts
The Eddas, sagas, and histories — where everything we know actually comes from.
15 entries →Begin with the Great Names
The figures every thread of the mythology runs through.
OdinÓðinn
Æsir god — AllfatherChief of the Æsir and ruler of Asgard: god of wisdom, war, poetry, magic, and the dead, who sacrificed an eye for knowledge and hung nine nights on Yggdrasil to win the runes.
ThorÞórr
Æsir god of thunderGod of thunder, storms, and the protection of mankind; wielder of the hammer Mjölnir and the most beloved and widely worshipped god of the Viking Age.
Loki
Trickster — jötunn-blooded companion of the ÆsirThe shape-shifting trickster of the Norse myths — Odin's blood-brother, cause of both the gods' greatest treasures and their doom, father of Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hel.
Freyja
Vanir goddess of love and warForemost of the goddesses: Vanir deity of love, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr magic, and battle — she takes half the slain, and owns the necklace Brísingamen.
Ragnarök
The doom of the godsThe prophesied end of the world: three winters without summer, the wolf freed, the gods and giants slaying each other on the plain of Vígríðr, the world burned by Surtr — and then reborn, green, from the sea.
YggdrasilYggdrasill
The world-treeThe immense ash tree at the centre of the cosmos, holding the nine worlds in its branches and roots — watered by the norns, gnawed by a dragon, and the gallows where Odin hung for the runes.