Images

Hermod Before Hela, illustration of the god Hermod kneeling before Hel, Norse goddess of the dead in the realm of Hel by English artist and illustrator John Charles Dollman, published in Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber...

Statue of a Valkyrie pouring mead by Danish sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen, 1835. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by Bloodofox. The work depicts the Valkyrie tending to the warriors in the afterlife realm of Valhalla...

Statue of a Valkyrie on her horse by Norwegian-Danish sculptor Stephan Sinding, 1908. Churchill Park, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by Leonard G.

Loki's Brood by the German artist Emil Doepler, illustration from page 43 of Walhall, die Götterwelt der Germanen, Martin Oldenbourg, Berlin. 1905. The drawing depicts the Norse god Loki's three children by the giantess Angrboda (shown in...

Official signpost of the German Limes Road (German: Deutsche Limes-Straße), a tourist route for motorists, cyclists and hikers that follows the course of the UNESCO - World Heritage Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes. Starting in Rheinbrohl (near...

Vetoniana is a Roman cohort camp near Pfünz in Bavaria, Germany. Probably constructed around 90 CE as a wooden and earth structure and later rebuilt in stone, Fort Vetoniana was garrisoned by a unit of 500 men, including some cavalry. Of...

Abusina was a Roman military camp of the Roman province of Rhaetia. It is located at Eining on the Danube around 30 kilometres (984 ft) south-west of Regensburg, along the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes. Originally a timbered earth fort erected...

An artist's impression of how the pirate Stede Bonnet (1689-1718) may have looked. Captain Bonnet was known as the 'Gentleman Pirate' since he was a former plantation owner before he turned to piracy. He was hanged in South Carolina in 1718...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum).

Dried long pepper catkins (Piper longum).