As The Glittering North opens at Raby Castle, Park and Gardens, an event celebrating the region’s Norse and Viking heritage, Curator ...

The Vikings believed in magic. They believed that their runic alphabet could be used to work magic spells ... The association with spinning also links Seidr with the Norns, the Norse fates that live ...

Hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, Europeans and Indigenous Americans may have already been engaging in trade. A new study just revealed that Norse Vikings hunted ...

In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among them - walrus ivory. With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory trade, this drove the Norse expansion into the north ...