Arabic sources describe the Vikings as beautiful but filthy
Icelandic historian Thorir Jonsson Hraundal has devoted his studies to observations in original Arab texts about the Vikings according to an article i...
Baltasar Kormákur to do Vikings movie after finishing Everest
Iceland’s top film director and producer Baltasar Kormákur has revealed that he wants to produce a movie called Vikings after he concluded his current...
Norway to build world’s biggest Viking theme park
Norway has revealed that it plans to start work on what will be the world’s largest Viking theme park in the near future. The park, which is expected ...
Stone found in English Channel could be Icelandic ‘sunstone’
A crystal recovered from a shipwreck in the English Channel may turn out to be the fabled ‘sunstone’ said to be used by the Vikings. According to anci...
Iceland’s early ‘criminal profiling’ of Vikings
Researchers have revealed that 10th century Iceland was perhaps one of the earliest documented places to utilise ‘criminal profiling’.
Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland
Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenla...
Vikings Explore Hudson Bay
Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into ...
Book review: New Harbors New Hopes, by Celia Lund
New Harbors New Hopes is a novel by Celia Lund and the follow-on to the enjoyable Square Sails and Dragons