The Vikings were far from a monolithic group. The Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes each brought something different to the table ...

Happy with the inaugural Great Northern Viking Festival, founder Inga From eyed the revelry she and volunteers helped create during the weekend at Jack McGowan farm. From said the all-volunteer effort ...

Norway's Viking Age landscapes including ship burial mounds could soon earn global recognition if authorities get their way.

Researchers employed cutting-edge techniques including microwear analysis and Reflective Transformation Imaging to examine figurines housed at the Swedish History Museum, reports Archaeology Magazine.

A weekend getaway includes a sojourn to the past, Viking style, and a futuristic romp SEATTLE — The striking zinc-clad structure rises dramatically from the street, long, narrow and high, rather like ...

This article appears in print in the May 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. What comes to mind when you think of the word “Nordic”? Classic cross-country skiing? Vikings? Snowflake patterns on knit ...

When you’re making a show about Vikings, the horned helmet really is unavoidable. “I had to make one,” chuckles Joan Bergin, costume designer for History’s new original scripted series “Vikings.” She ...

This article appears in print in the May 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Here’s a recent story that seems to address a shift in Seattle culture. Earlier this year, a resident of Greenwood thought ...

Tracing your family history can be a rewarding task. Family names are an easy way to identify with a religion, ethnicity or historical place you come from, no matter how watered down your lineage ...

Before ski jumping and cross-country skiing were contested as separate and individual events, nordic combined was a popular competition at carnivals throughout Norway in the 1800s. Nordic combined is ...