A recent DNA analysis of skeletal remains found in a well at Sverresborg Castle in Trondheim, Norway, is lending new insights ...

Viking games typically ... only one mission in life: to save Midgard from Ragnarok. Yes, Raganrok, the deadly “end of times” that has been foretold within its culture for countless millennia ...

and how the lingering trauma of this prolonged winter possibly made its way into the Viking culture’s mythology. Many great religions and cultures of history have some sort of concept of ...

The events are recorded in "Sverris Saga," one of the "King's Sagas," or prose poems, written in Norway and Iceland between ...

So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who went on ...

An old Norse story tells of a king's man being tossed down a well in 1197. An archeologist teamed up with an evolutionary ...

When we think about Norse ... culture and ancient Scandinavia. The story begins when we’re introduced to Magnus Chase, a Boston native living on the wrong side of the tracks. By way of his ...

Explore Funen, Denmark's fairy tale island: 3 days of Hans Christian Andersen's world, Viking history, charming towns and ...

A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that ...

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Viking has added six itineraries in Asia that will expand the cruise company's exclusive access for guests to Japan and China ...