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What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era

Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

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