RUNTUNA, Sweden — The cries of “hell!” “hell!” ringing out across a snow-clad landscape attracted a curious crowd of weekend tobogganers. At the foot of an ancient Viking burial mound, one of the ...
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How Viking legends became a modern nationalist myth
Vikings are often imagined as a single Scandinavian people with a shared identity, yet the historical reality is far more ...
Starting in the Middle Ages, when Norway became a Christian country, former Vikings-turn-Christians built immense cathedrals and churches to honor the new religion—all made entirely from wood rather ...
AMERICAN VIKINGS: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America. By Martyn Whittock. Pegasus Books. 272 pages. $29.95. Centuries of lively and heroic medieval sagas, first recorded ...
Coeur d'Alene High School's mascot has been brought to life as a more than 500-pound, 7-foot statue and placed at the base of ...
The Swedish government is looking into the possibility of forbidding the use of Norse runes, local media has reported, amid concerns that the ancient symbols have been misappropriated by neo-Nazi ...
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