This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

A landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized ...

Related to the extinct Old Norse language ... its alphabet is based on the Baybayin alphabet, and everything is written out ...

Great! Well let’s start at the beginning…The Vikings lived over 1000 years ago, but they don’t look that old to me, what’s your secret?The Vikings were Norse people who came from an area ...

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 ...

I have been weeding through boxes of letters from as far back as the 1920s, saved by my grandparents and then by my mom. The majority of these were written by, or in sympathy for, my late uncle ...

Great! Well let’s start at the beginning…The Vikings lived over 1000 years ago, but they don’t look that old to me, what’s your secret?The Vikings were Norse people who came from an area ...

So, where did Tolkien’s interest in Norse mythology begin? Well, in the 1920s he completed a translation of the Old English ...

There is an old joke told in the US. There are two kinds of Europeans; on the one hand you have those who are dynamic, resourceful and hardworking, while on the other hand you have those who ...

Sri Lanka’s old vehicles using ... of number plates for three letter numbers have already begun and 1600 number plates a day are produced now, said a department official. The year 1957 was marked by ...

It bothers me that the two buildings in the fatal Old Montreal fires had been subject to fire safety-code violations. You’d think the buildings’ owner would have been required to remedy these ...

Emily Bary is a MarketWatch news editor based in New York.