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 ...

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

Ancient, repurposed parchments reveal hidden and forgotten traces of Iceland’s history. Iceland has a long and rich literary ...

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

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

In the Middle Ages, the Icelanders wrote down these oral traditions both in Latin and in Old Norse. Snorri Sturluson was the last and most important in a long line of saga writers who wrote down ...

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 ...

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 ...