There is a long history of the far right co-opting Norse imagery. Jake Angeli, the Trump supporter who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing horns and displaying his tattoos, is just the latest example.

That Viking symbols can be deployed in such a broad range of uses, and appeal to such a broad political spectrum, is a sign of how little is actually known about worship practices or local customs ...

The runes, the worship of Norse gods – particularly of Odin, who was viewed as a warrior god – and the sonnenrad were all part of this spiritual component that infused elements of the Nazi agenda.

Norse rune symbols have drawn similar suspicion in the past, and have been used by Aryan groups in the United States since the 1980s, Nordvig said. More recently, Richard Allen, ...

Helen A. Berger is a r esident Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center.. This article originally appeared on The Conversation.. Just before the supermarket shooting that ...

Modern neo-Nazis routinely use Norse symbols, including the Odal rune. The Anti-Defamation League website explains: "Today, it is commonly seen in tattoo form, on flags or banners, ...

This is a symbol listed by the Anti-Defamation League as “one of a number of ancient European symbols appropriated by the Nazis in their attempt to invent an idealised Aryan or Norse heritage”.

These tattoos were of Norse symbols such as Thor’s hammer. White nationalism is fuelled by a weaponised version of Norse mythology. It is the invented Aryan heritage that underpins racist ...