St. Nick wasn’t the first iteration of Santa, however. Odin, a diety from early Norse pagan societies, was described as an old man with a white beard, who took to the air on the back of an 8-legged ...
This stone is not only a 'page-turn' from pagan to Christian beliefs, it also has that rarest of things - the name of the person who was responsible. Down one side, written in ancient Norse runes ...