There were some pretty unusual Viking rituals practiced from the late 8th century into the late 11th century. It’s no secret that Vikings were fierce warriors with a reputation for raiding nations and ...

There were some pretty unusual Viking rituals practiced from the late 8th century into the late 11th century. It’s no secret that Vikings were fierce warriors with a reputation for raiding nations and ...

For decades, historians have debated whether an infamously violent Viking torture ritual ever really happened, or if it was a misunderstood or embellished story passed down through poetry over the ...

Some 1,000 years ago, Viking elites may have hosted ceremonies intended to avert the apocalypse at a large ritual site deep in a volcanic cave in Iceland. As the Jerusalem Post reports, archaeologists ...

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 ...

As the final leaves fall and the hush of winter begins to settle over the land, we enter a potent threshold in the wheel of the year. In Norse cosmology, this time is not merely a descent into cold ...

The mainstream news site Religion News Service had a piece last week on the new Ásatrú temple in Iceland, titled After 1,000 years, a new temple to the Norse gods rises in Iceland. Here’s a brief ...