The Vikings once awed all of Europe. Starting with the conquest of their closest neighbors, the Normans, that is, the “northern people,” changed the “vector of civilization” no more or less. The South brought to the North the sophistication of culture, numerous technical achievements and the religion of the White God; The North radically changed the ethnic map of Europe, established sea communications based on the Baltic and the North Sea - and established its code of honor and its faith in the space from Trondheim to Tarragona and from Novgorod to Normandy, which later became known as “Viking mythology.” One-Eyed the cunning Odin and the mighty Thor, the insidious mocker Loki and the beautiful Freya, the bright god Balder, the world serpent Jormungandr and many, many others - all this is the mythopoetic tradition of the North, otherwise - Scandinavian mythology.