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 ...

Norway's Wardruna will release a new album on January 24. It's called Birna and it's out via Norse/Sony. The band's Einar Selvik has composed music for major productions such as Vikings and Assassin’s ...

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 ...