The competitors' equipment, made of steel and titanium, must be historically accurate. The sound of steel when a sword hits ...

Each year they prepare obsessively for Up Helly Aa, assembling, plank by plank, a replica of a Viking ship. Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off in a mock battle ...

Bragi Boddason was a famous Norwegian skaldic poet who lived in the first half of the 9th century and composed poetry about ...

Your support makes all the difference. The findings corroborate with the Norse Sverris Saga, an 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, according to researchers from the Norwegian University ...

In Norse mythology, the apocalyptic event known as Ragnarök is preceded by a three-year-long winter known as Fimbulwinter, or “mighty winter.” Scholars have speculated whether Fimbulwinter is ...

The island's location in the Irish Sea made it a useful hub for travellers, traders and seafarers alike and Viking items in the national collections range from fishing hooks and needles to swords ...

You can also win in a variety of ways, with some Viking-themed special win conditions such as being the first to forge Odin’s Sword or discovering and taking control of Yggdrasil. It even has ...

Viking culture is beloved by many, so much so that a whole festival was planned around celebrating the heroes of the past.

Wargaming will be unleashing their inner viking in World of Tanks this Thursday as they send players on a 2 week special ...

Your support makes all the difference. Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered a mysterious Viking Age burial ground with graves shaped like stone ships. As many as 139 of these graves have been ...

By way of his estranged uncle, Magnus learns that his long-lost father is a Norse god and Asgard is on the brink of destruction. Unless Magnus can find an ancient sword lost by his father ...