This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Norse Paganism Hymns gathers two of the atlas's Norse religious poems, one a skaldic praise poem describing carved myths and one the closest thing in Old Norse literature to a pagan prayer in a pagan voice.
Husdrapa, house poem, is a skaldic praise poem composed by the Icelandic skald Ulfr Uggason around 985 CE, according to Laxdaela saga for a wedding feast, describing three mythological scenes carved on the panels of the host's hall, Baldr's funeral, Thor's fishing expedition for the Midgard Serpent, and Heimdall's fight with Loki over the necklace Brisingamen; twelve stanzas survive, quoted by Snorri Sturluson in the Prose Edda as evidence for these myths, making the poem both religious praise poetry and a primary source for the myths it describes.
The Sigrdrifa Prayer has the valkyrie Sigrdrifa, woken by Sigurd, greet the day and the night and the gods and ask for eloquence and healing hands; it is heavily used by modern heathen reconstruction precisely because it reads as a pagan prayer in a pagan voice. The caution the atlas keeps on it is real: the Poetic Edda was written down in Christian Iceland some two centuries after conversion, and how much of the material reflects practice rather than antiquarian literary composition is genuinely disputed, the same caution that qualifies how far Husdrapa's mythological content can be trusted as pre-Christian testimony rather than later poetic elaboration.