Learn more about the influence the Vikings had on the English language.

Kaka came into Swedish from Old Norse, and has its roots in a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “ball-shaped object”. It ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

From chasing the Northern Lights to hiking across awe-inspiring glaciers, these eight experiences allow you to enjoy the ...

The Daily Mail has been tarred with the same brush used to purge fake news sites from online dictionary Wikipedia. Editors ...

The Flemish who live in this part of Belgium call this city “Brugge” (BROO-ghah), but the French half of the country (and ...

The next time you have 12 hours to kill, why spend it sitting around when you can be sitting in front of a silver screen? If ...

In 1066, the invasion of William the Conqueror introduced Norman French to England when it became the language of the ruling ...

was based on West Germanic dialects with influences of Celtic and Old Norse. After the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066, many French loanwords infiltrated the language, when French became a sign ...

Heart of a Valkyrie by Melanie Karsak follows Freydis Eiriksdottir, the illegitimate daughter of Eirik the Red, caught between the old Norse ways and the rise of Christianity. As she embraces her ...

In an interview, Tolkien, while not specifically characterizing the Jews as warlike, nonetheless spoke to an explicit connection with biblical characterizations of the Jews, with the biblical narrativ ...

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough has published Beyond The Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas. She was selected as one of the New Generation Thinkers in 2013 in a scheme run by BBC ...