Archaeologists have unearthed numerous Viking burials sites and extensive treasure which date back to the Iron Age, Ancient ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming ...

From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.

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And there was his great-grandmother, Tori Waiata Ormsby, who descended from a Scandinavian Viking named Orm. As legend has it ...

As Michelle Obama's The Look is published, we dissect first-lady fashion through the decades. From "mother of the nation" to ...

A visit to the Northern European peninsula taught me that, believe it or not, the Scandi lifestyle is even better in real life ...

Lyric coloratura soprano Tracy Fehr generously uses her prodigious talents to help others, performing medieval to ...

Vikings are often depicted as warmongering seafarers from Scandinavia, men who set out on expeditions to plunder distant lands. The lives of women of the Viking age factor less into the fantasy; many ...

In the age of Vikings, Freydís Eiríksdóttir was unlike anyone else. The daughter of Erik the Red and sister of Leif Erikson, she sailed farther than most men dared - and when betrayal came, she ...

Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic novel starring Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, and Oscar Isaac drops ...