While myths often seem to be works of fiction, sometimes, the line separating them from history begins to blur, as is the ...

Researchers believe the drinking hall may have been used by the Norse chief Earl Sigurd — who was a powerful figure during ...

You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse gods in prose: Snorri Sturluson's Edda and Saxo's History of the Danes. By completing this course, you will be able to: ...

Called 'Old Norse Sagas', these tales of heroes, warriors, epic adventures and amazing insights in to daily life all still seem highly relevant today. Written and narrated by Dr Janina Ramirez ...

How enjoyable was that? Fantastic!Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need a bath. The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse'. It means ‘a pirate raid’. People who ...

Somewhat surprisingly for such notable historic monuments ... evidence we have of the slow transition from belief in the old Norse Gods to the ‘new’ Christian faith. The Uppsala rune stones ...

This is a tale where human passions have a high cost; but in one passage in the Darraðarljóð, a skaldic poem in Old Norse, the saga moves beyond the blood and gore of the mortal realm.

Historically, the North Atlantic archipelago was part of the Viking world and its inhabitants speak a language derived from Old Norse. Now, evidence has emerged that people reached the island by ...

How enjoyable was that? Fantastic!Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need a bath. The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse'. It means ‘a pirate raid’. People who ...