Stories

If you enjoy playing online games, you may notice how often Viking warriors, ancient runes, and powerful gods appear. These … Read More

The Vikings are remembered for their raids, but trade built their world more permanently than any sword. Norse merchant networks … Read More

Even for a god who has faced down world-ending serpents and stone-headed giants, there is one journey that stands out … Read More

When we think of Thor, our minds immediately go to the short-handled hammer, Mjölnir. But even the strongest god in … Read More

On a winter night in a Viking longhouse, the entertainment was not only songs and stories. People played games. Boards … Read More

Across the windswept plains of the Canadian Prairies and into the bustling urban centers of Toronto and Vancouver, an ancient … Read More

The Viking Age is often pictured as all prow and plunder: longships cutting a grey sea, steel flashing, names shouted … Read More

The Viking Age, stretching roughly from the late 8th to the mid-11th century, was a period defined by movement, belief, … Read More

Imagine you are a farmer in 10th-century Sweden, digging a post-hole for a new barn. You hit something hard—not a … Read More

Before he was the “Hard Ruler” of Norway or the legendary commander of the Varangian Guard, Harald Sigurdsson was simply … Read More