Outraged social media users condemned the Conservative Political Action Conference organizers this weekend for what they speculated was a nod to Nazi pagan ideology and modern white supremacy, drawing ...

In October, Professor Judith Jesch of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for the Study of the Viking Age led a group of 20 ...

Matt Shore is a writer, comedian, and actor known for his work on The Eric Andre Show and the podcast, Made Up Movies. Vikings and their exploits have long been the stuff of legend, and in terms of ...

Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th centuries A.D. Some runes vaguely resemble letters in our own alphabet; others ...

Just about every American child learns in school that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America--or, more accurately, a small island in the Caribbean--in 1492. What isn’t always taught is that the ...

A new find from Denmark dubbed the Vindelev bracteate, has challenged the previous understanding of religion in late prehistoric and early medieval Scandinavia. The discovery of the oldest recorded ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...