Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...
Scientists have used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique population of Icelandic walrus that went extinct shortly after Norse settlement some 1100 years ...
Erik the Red, whose real name was Erik Thorvaldsson, was a daring Viking explorer who famously turned a remote Arctic island ...
(RNS) Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland. REYKJAVIK, (RNS) Icelanders will ...
The first major temple devoted to the Norse gods since the Viking Age will begin construction in Iceland this month, the Guardian reports. The temple, which will be of circular shape, will be embedded ...
In the early 18th-century, Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon bequeathed his collection of manuscripts dating back to the middle ages to the University of Copenhagen. Following an agreement between ...
An international collaboration of scientists in Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands has for the first time used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique ...
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