Rök runestone, one of the world's most famous, is believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia. With hit TV shows and recent ...

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 ...

Aidan Gray, a Princeton senior majoring in classics, came well-prepared to his class on “The Vikings: History and Archaeology.” He was eager to recreate an inscription from the ninth-century Kingmoor ...

Perhaps no one has ever been as excited to see a comb as Danish archaeologist Søren Sindbæk. He and a team of archaeologists from Aarhus University recently unearthed one at a historic Viking town ...

Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark are the five principal countries of the Nordic region. The Nordic countries are known around the world for their unique history and culture. From a shared ...

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 ...