However, they pull influence from across Nordic history and Norse mythology, with the goal not of mindlessly celebrating olden times, but simply giving their traditions a voice in the modern age.

That brought us face to face with the Viking presence. The rest is history.” The entry for the year 874 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reads: “This year went the [Great Army] from Lindsey to ...

Dublin, one of the largest Viking cities in the British Isles ... a professor of Anglo-Saxon history at Cambridge University. “They engaged in extortion on a massive scale, using the threat ...

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates today's modern reimaginings of this ancient history) is partaking in the spoils of a violent raid on an ...

He teaches subjects in Old Norse culture and religion, Arctic cultures, and medieval Nordic history. His research revolves around animistic expressions and environmental conceptions in pre-Christian ...

Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight. U.S. President Donald Trump has been maneuvering to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know only as a huge ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

Choose to be a Norse God or Goddess and watch over the Viking people (Jarls, Karls and Thralls) in your village. Learn about the history of the Vikings and Viking life, whilst collecting resources ...