Norrøn
The age of gods and myth. Speak with Óðinn, Þórr and Freyja in their own voices.
Heritage and mythology
About Skalden
Skalden — Norwegian for the skald, the poet and saga-teller — is an immersive companion to the Norse world for iPhone.
Two switchable worlds
The gods, and the age they left behind.
Viking
The historical age, roughly 793 to 1066. A skald hosts you through the sagas — the voyages, the settlements, the named figures.
Where the stories come from
Built on the sources, not invented.
Skalden is built entirely on public-domain sources — what the medieval world preserved and nineteenth-century scholars translated.
- The Poetic Edda (Bellows, 1923) and the Prose Edda (Brodeur, 1916)
- Heimskringla and the kings' sagas
- The great Icelandic family sagas and the Vínland sagas
It does not invent lore. When a tale's status matters — myth or chronicle, legend or fact — Skalden says so.
Provenance honesty
A reconstruction, and honest about it.
The Norse sources are a medieval Christian-era reconstruction. Snorri wrote the Prose Edda around 1220, two centuries after Iceland's conversion. Skalden treats the corpus as exactly that — pieced from what survived, not a scripture handed down whole.
Our stance
Heritage, not authority.
Skalden serves the old stories accurately and treats living Heathenry with respect, but claims no religious authority. The sources are about gods, fate, honour and feud — Skalden will not let them be turned into a charter for ethnic supremacy or "blood" ideology they do not contain.
Made in Norway.
Skalden is made by Gilb International. For anything at all, write to support@skalden.app.