In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, ...

In the 800-year old Norse Sverris Saga, the author recounts the gruesome tale of a corpse being thrown into a well to pollute ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

Investigating the lost literary history of Iceland reveals religious upheavals and clever forgeries, new research has ...

Called 'Old Norse Sagas', these tales of heroes, warriors, epic adventures and amazing insights in to daily life all still seem highly relevant today. Written and narrated by Dr Janina Ramirez ...

The incident is chronicled in a medieval Norse text, which suggests that the ... Radiocarbon dating revealed that the bones ...

Discover how ancient languages, pagan traditions, and Christian influences shaped the names Yule, Noel, and Christmas into ...

Along with the details found within Norwegian stave churches, rune stones provide some of the best evidence we have of the slow transition from belief in the old Norse Gods to the ‘new ...