History Channel and Prime Video's hit series, Vikings, brought us close to the action as the legend of Ragnar Lothbrok ...

Explore the remarkable Viking voyages that led Norse explorers to North America around 1000 AD centuries before Columbus set ...

And Ragnarök is also a popular theme in Scandinavian death metal or Viking Metal, which draws on Norse mythology. In Ragnarök, the older generation of gods will be destroyed.

And nowhere was that more the case than in Viking-era Scandinavia. AMAZING FACTS; BIG QUESTIONS; ... Hrotti was an Old Norse word for a sword, but the Vikings commandeered the term as an ...

Archaeologists have confirmed key details in Norse oral histories (but not the dragons, elves, and trolls). The Vikings had "a long oral history going back centuries," says Eleanor Rosamund ...

The Vikings gave no quarter when they stormed the city of Nantes, in what is now western France, in June 843—not even to the monks barricaded in the city's cathedral. "The heathens mowed down ...

If you're the type who is nauseated by complex RTS menus, this is a Norse game that gives that nonsense a Viking funeral. Jotun. Jotun is an indie game that centers on the protagonist Thora, ...

AMERICAN VIKINGS: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America. By Martyn Whittock. Pegasus Books. 272 pages. $29.95.

Developer Arctic Hazard has announced Norse, an upcoming turn-based tactics game set in Norway in the age of Vikings. It promises an "historically authentic" world where you embark on a quest for ...