RUNTUNA, Sweden — The cries of “hell!” “hell!” ringing out across a snow-clad landscape attracted a curious crowd of weekend tobogganers. At the foot of an ancient Viking burial mound, one of the ...
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How Viking legends became a modern nationalist myth
Vikings are often imagined as a single Scandinavian people with a shared identity, yet the historical reality is far more ...
Starting in the Middle Ages, when Norway became a Christian country, former Vikings-turn-Christians built immense cathedrals and churches to honor the new religion—all made entirely from wood rather ...
AMERICAN VIKINGS: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America. By Martyn Whittock. Pegasus Books. 272 pages. $29.95. Centuries of lively and heroic medieval sagas, first recorded ...
Coeur d'Alene High School's mascot has been brought to life as a more than 500-pound, 7-foot statue and placed at the base of ...
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