Viking officially named its newest ocean ship, Viking Vesta, at a traditional ceremony held in Split, Croatia.

THE neat streets of Oslo are not a natural setting for crime fiction. Nor, with its cows and country smells, is the flat farming land of Sweden's southern tip. And Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, is ...

THE first of the works1 under notice* is an elaborate survey of all the ancient Norse buildings known in Greentaled, together with a summary of the relics and an estimate of the stock carried. on ...

A half century later, the Norse appear to have invaded once more, as Viking culture and all things Nordic continue to soar in popular culture. Old Norse gods such as Thor, Loki and Odin, command the ...

From Marvel's Thor to Game of Thrones and Neil Gaiman, Norse legends have influenced culture and current ideas, according to a new book. The US writer Mark Twain famously wrote: "There is no such ...

Viking lore describes Vinland as a fertile area in the Gulf of St. Lawrence filled with grapevines and beech trees, and it could very well have been P.E.I., said society president Megan Macdonald.

From Marvel's Thor to Game of Thrones and Neil Gaiman, Norse legends have influenced culture and current ideas, according to a new book. The US writer Mark Twain famously wrote: "There is no such ...

Pagan Viking culture wasn’t necessarily more open-minded than neighbouring Medieval Christianity along gender lines either. It was a form of insult to say a Norse woman carried weapons, ...

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Carolyne Larrington has recently published The Old Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think with Thames and Hudson. As professor of medieval European literature, I have been exploring Old Norse ...