This class offers a brief introduction into Norse Mythology, and proposes a potential one-week study tour to Iceland (date to be determined by OLLI). From the Bronze Age to the end of the Viking Age in the 11th century, mythology shaped tribal life, politics, and ideas about life’s stations and death. The last group to practice these beliefs were the Scandinavian Vikings, some of whom settled in Iceland. Today, Iceland is reviving the old beliefs with a brand new pagan temple, promoting environmental sustainability, tolerance, and the teaching of history as civic education. A future study tour would visit the temple construction and the founding society, as well as other historical and cultic sites from the settlement era.