History Channel’s Vikings is back for Season 4, as committed as ever to a balanced portrayal of a much maligned “Other” that’s been reliably portrayed as über-violent heathens in everything from ...

Yule logs can mean different things for different people. For some, yule logs mean warm, crackling fireplaces. For others, they bring to mind sweet, chocolate cakes. Either way, the Christmas icon in ...

Scholars of Scandinavian studies at the Cluster of Excellence are investigating cultural memories of pre-Christian Nordic paganism from the Middle Ages to the present day – “Brave explorers, strong ...

It’s one of the minor but no less essential aspects of living that the pandemic robbed from us: Doing things the way they had been done. Routines are important for feeling OK, both in day-to-day life ...

The clash of religion, politics and conquest in the History Channel’s hit series “Vikings” slowly maps out how the Nordic warriors gave up their gods and adopted Christianity after centuries of ...

The U.S. Army has reportedly acquiesced to the power of Thor, granting a soldier permission to grow a beard in keeping with his Norse pagan faith. Sikh soldiers, who are bound by their religion to ...

It’s been a long wait for fans of History Channel’s Vikings since news dropped that Netflix was picking up and continuing the story, albeit some 100 years after the events that unfolded in the ...

After six seasons on the History Channel, Vikings return to the zeitgeist with Vikings: Valhalla. The series brings back Jeb Stuart as showrunner with Michael Hirst as executive producer, and it ...