A man who crafted a replica Viking shield in his garden shed before donating it to a museum on the Isle of Man said the ...

Happy with the inaugural Great Northern Viking Festival, founder Inga From eyed the revelry she and volunteers helped create during the weekend at Jack McGowan farm. From said the all-volunteer effort ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

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Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

A weekend getaway includes a sojourn to the past, Viking style, and a futuristic romp SEATTLE — The striking zinc-clad structure rises dramatically from the street, long, narrow and high, rather like ...

This article appears in print in the May 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. What comes to mind when you think of the word “Nordic”? Classic cross-country skiing? Vikings? Snowflake patterns on knit ...

Maybe it’s the hygge hype or perhaps it’s just because we love foraged and pickled foods, but Nordic cuisine is the darling of the current food world. Sadly, though, there are few places to try it ...

With Swedish farmhouses, Viking churches and €4 fika, Estonia feels profoundly Nordic, without the eye-watering price tag. The guesses roll in: Sweden? Norway? Finland? All could be right. Everything ...

Before ski jumping and cross-country skiing were contested as separate and individual events, nordic combined was a popular competition at carnivals throughout Norway in the 1800s. Nordic combined is ...