Netflix has announced the upcoming arrival of one of its most talked-about historical action films, set to debut on the ...

Scholars reveal that much of what we think we know about Vikings and Norse mythology is based on later reinterpretations rather than original sources.

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

Scholars of Scandinavian studies at the Cluster of Excellence are investigating cultural memories of pre-Christian Nordic ...

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Humans and animals have lived together or side by side throughout the ages. Modern human society is largely organized on the principle that people are separate from animals and have a unique existence ...

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Vikings: Scandinavian a people from Scandinavia, or a bunch of multiethnic seafaring barbarians who pillaged, raped, and conquered their way through more than three centuries of European history? Or ...