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 ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

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 ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The northern peoples to A.D. 790: From the beginnings to the Age of Migrations -- The legendary history of the Swedes and the Danes -- The Viking kingdoms to the ...

Heading into their fifth consecutive Class A state football championship game appearance against Breckenridge on Friday, the ...