Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

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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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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 ...

Jacob Bernander and Askur Ingvaldsson from The Viking Museum in Stockholm are joining us to break down some of the Viking and Norse mythology inspirations and history from God of War: Ragnarok. From ...

A man said he eventually found his own faith by "becoming a Viking warrior". Richard Mehmed, 31, from Lowestoft, Suffolk, is one of many Viking re-enactors across England who spend their weekends in ...

We’ve survived the Mayan apocalypse and Y2K, but be afraid – the end of the world is coming…again. This time it’s the Viking apocalypse that is allegedly set to destroy Earth, with Norse mythology ...

Troll 2 is the latest movie to feature one of the most fascinating monsters from Norse mythology or the legends of Nordic countries.