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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...

Culture, HistoryMarch 15, 2017
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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...

Entertainment, IcelandFebruary 9, 2014
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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 ...

Culture, EntertainmentDecember 10, 2013
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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...

Art, IcelandMarch 14, 2013
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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’.

Iceland, ScandinaviaSeptember 13, 2012
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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...

Denmark, EnvironmentJanuary 28, 2012
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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 ...

Canada, CultureJanuary 28, 2012
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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

Art, CanadaNovember 28, 2011
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