Most folks haven't seen this Icelandic '80s Viking film since it's near-impossible to stream, which is too bad since it's a ...

What Viking vengeance and a Bhutanese mock election reveal about how communities learn to live with their pasts — here’s why ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

Centuries before modern travelers reached Norway’s Lofoten islands for the scenery, Viking chieftains settled here for fertile soil and rich fishing grounds.

Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who ...

As devoted fans of Robert Plant know, the legendary Led Zeppelin frontman has always had a fascination with myths and magic; ...

On September 25, 1066, King Harold Godwinson's Saxon army had just force-marched nearly 200 miles in four days to confront a ...

The island’s most iconic landmark stands at its northernmost point—Pottawatomie Lighthouse, Wisconsin’s oldest light station. Established in 1836 and rebuilt in 1858, this gleaming white structure ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...