Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Christmas isn’t the only holiday left on the calendar--today is a very important day of celebration because of two things: day and night. Today is the winter solstice, the year’s darkest day and its ...