Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Scholars reveal that much of what we think we know about Vikings and Norse mythology is based on later reinterpretations rather than original sources.

Like anything else, interest in enchantment — in magic and mystery and the return of once and future kings — goes in cycles, and we are clearly in a period of resurgence. New Age spirituality is more ...

Most Christians consider Easter to be a sacred and joyous celebration of Christ's Resurrection. But what about the claim that Easter and its accompanying traditions originated from a pagan spring ...

As the applause faded at the end of Harrison Birtwistle's latest chamber opera, The Io Passion, a member of the audience rolled his eyes, sighed, and muttered audibly, 'Only in Islington.' We had just ...

Ve and Vili and Odin looked at each other and spoke of what was needful to do, there in the void of Ginnungagap. They spoke of the universe, and of life, and of the future. Odin and Ve and Vili killed ...