Dogs in History
Meet the dogs who shaped history — from ancient legends to modern heroes. Some of these dogs are famous, others long forgotten, but all played a part in the human story.
Their stories live here and are grouped into six themed categories.
Each tale will surprise you, move you, and change the way you think about dogs and history.
A new story every Friday, about a dog worth remembering.
Garmr and the Dogs of the Norse Dead
A bloody dog came up out of Hel, the Norse underworld, to bay at Odin. Readers have called him Garmr for more than a century, but the old poems never name him.
