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

Some of the remaining residents at Seattle's Norse Home retirement facility say they won't move out, despite the looming deadline.

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

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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 ...

Only exclusive calfskin was used to make parchment in Iceland. Calfskin parchment is called vellum, and it took dozens of ...

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 ...

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office found a 65-year-old woman, who was last seen Saturday by her loved ones, dead Wednesday in the area of her property on Cougar Gulch Road, according to Lt.

In essence, say the researchers, the Norse were adapting their lives to their new environment but continuing to gift old-fashioned toys. Though the lack of toys may indicate that Norse society was ...