Stories

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

In the towering sagas of the North, the spotlight usually stays fixed on the gods—the thunderous roar of Thor, the … Read More

The image of a Viking in popular culture is simple and brutal: a horned helmet (historically inaccurate, but striking), an … Read More

If you were to stand in the fields of Gamla Uppsala a thousand years ago, you wouldn’t just be standing … Read More

Most royal family trees start with a duke or a conquering general. The Ynglings, the legendary first dynasty of Sweden … Read More