The Vikings once shook the whole of Europe . Starting with the conquest of the nearest neighbors, the Normans, that is, the "northern people", neither more nor less changed the "vector of civilization". The South brought to the North the refinement of culture, numerous technical achievements and the religion of the White God. The North, on the other hand, radically changed the ethnic map of Europe, established maritime communications based on the Baltic and the North Sea and approved its code of honor and its faith in the space from Trondheim to Tarragona and from Novgorod to Normandy, which later became known as the “Viking mythology” .. One-eyed cunningman One and mighty Thor, treacherous mocker Loki and beautiful Freya, the bright god Baldr, the world serpent Jormungand and many, many others - all this is a mythopoetic tradition of the North, otherwise - Scandinavian mythology.