Ancient Scandinavians, often referred to as the Vikings, might not have been as simple and barbaric as they have been portrayed for the last decades. For a Viking, the art of storytelling was highly regarded and the stories told around the fire were often filled with deeper wisdom and warnings on what would happen if humans didn’t hold up their moral standards. It’s probably not a coincidence that artists, scholars, and famous writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Richard Wagner found a lot of inspiration from their ancient legends—legends filled with elves, trolls, dwarves, and divine intervention….