When you think of the word 'poetry', you probably don't think of a Viking - someone who is typically pictured with a long beard, helmet with horns on it, and looks like he could tear you in half with his bare hands. Well, a discovery by historians is going to change Vikings from looking like savage plunderers, to violent men who also write poetry.
Poetry was such a crucial part of the Viking way of life, that it is said that in order to earn a name for yourself as a Viking, you must be able to write good poetry. Although, some of the Viking poets didn't exactly have the best names - such as Kormak Ogmundarson.
Kormak, along with his Viking comrades, have now been credited with creating romantic poetry, something that was previously credited to medieval civilizations around 200 years later.
The Vikings believed poetry was a gift directly from Odin, but what did Viking poetry look like? Click the source to find out!