David Lovegrove: Viking Superpowers—Way of Asgard

Summary

Australian UFO researcher David Lovegrove argues that the Norse gods of the Viking sagas were not myths but real, mortal, technologically advanced beings, possibly from the Pleiades, who interbred with humans. By retranslating Old Norse words usually rendered as 'heaven' and 'god,' he reads Asgard as a sky fortress, Valhalla as a space station, and Viking artifacts as depictions of flying craft and pressure-suited pilots. He also describes his own 1978 encounter with a woman who said she was not from this earth, which he links to the modern 'Nordic' alien reports.

Key takeaways

• 1Lovegrove's book 'Viking Superpowers: Way of Asgard' (foreword by Paul Wallace, back-cover endorsement by Project Stargate veteran Col. John Alexander) builds on the approach of Erich von Däniken and Mauro Biglino. A sequel, 'Way of Midgard,' is in progress.
• 2He argues the Viking Age (793-1066) began as a religious war against Charlemagne, who beheaded 4,500 Saxon pagans in one day and cut down the Irminsul.
• 3He retranslates Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and Heimskringla, claiming 'himinn' means the sky or space rather than 'heaven.' On his reading, the Aesir were mortal beings from Anatolia who stayed young with Idun's 'tablets,' and Odin's powers resemble remote viewing.
• 4He interprets the Uppåkra brooch from Sweden as Völund (Wayland the Smith) wearing a jet-powered escape craft and a ringed high-altitude pressure suit. He also reads the Gotland picture stones (such as Ardre VIII) as showing Völund flying to Valhalla, which he sees as a space station.
• 5He claims the Bronze Age Bohuslän petroglyphs and Pleiades imagery show sky people interbreeding with 'earth mothers.' He links Ask and Embla to Adam and Eve, ties 'Midgard' to the Sumerian word Anunnaki, and connects the giant Bergelmir's escape in a 'lúðr' to a spaceship surviving a Younger Dryas-era flood.
• 6He says that in 1978 a green-eyed, Nordic-looking woman claimed to be off-world and invited him onto a mothership at Redland Bay. He links this to the 1965 saucer sighting near his childhood home, the 1978 Frederick Valentich disappearance, and Rev. Robert Kirk's 'The Secret Commonwealth.'

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Transcript excerpt

Well, hello, how you doing? Happy weekend to you. We're in the thick of it now in November. This year has been flying by. And November and December. Tend to really go quickly because you got family activities, friends and, you know, meetings and Thanksgiving parties. And then, of course, Christmas or Hanukkah, whatever you celebrate. And, uh, things do speed up. And that puts us on notice that we have to get our act together. And I've been thinking about tours that are coming up in 2027. But more than anything else, I'm hoping to make the big announcement when the book comes out. I'm thinking fall of 2027, the Maya controversy. And so I'll let you know about that. I think I'm going to read portions of chapters So you get a sense of what I'm dealing with. And what has happened is in my research of controversial notions about the Maya, and there's so many, I mean, there's just list after list of unusual technology, science, the supernatural world that we don't talk enough about when it comes to the Maya because we don't know how they interpret it. When we had the scholar Victor Monteo on the program, he's presenting flavor. But he's not a shaman. He's not a daykeeper. He's a scholar. He's a Mayan scholar who was educated in the Western tradition. And what he has memories of are from his parents and from his relatives. Now, we've only had Carlos Barreros, the shaman, on once, but he passed away during COVID. And so we're missing that knowledge. We're missing that information. And this is what's very, very critical right now. We have tens of thousands of ruins. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Nov 7, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.