Not to mention the hundreds of other games in which you fight dragons? Yeah. It’s pretty pervasive. But that’s not enough, even! There is one man that is more responsible for this immense amount of Nordic mythology in video games of any fantastical variety: J.R.R. Tolkien. He singlehandedly created such an immense amount of lore, and his books were (and are) so popular, that the Norse elements of them are ever-present in anything fantasy today.