Viking sailors ... Cats held dual roles in Norse society: practical guardians of the food supply and, at times, contributors to the warm clothing that protected people from the bitter cold.

The Viking celebrations are filled with fiery symbolism, camaraderie, storytelling and community feasts on the UK's most northerly islands.

From fiery festivals to nature's most dazzling "sky-dance", interest in the night skies is booming, with "noctourism" poised ...

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With its red-bricked streets and Victorian-era buildings, it’s like stepping into a time machine – if time machines had artisanal coffee shops and boutique clothing ... the Vikings landed and decided ...

A rumor has spread online for years that Vikings believed a goat whose udders produced an endless supply of beer awaited them ...

Many identified runestones come centuries later in history, during the Viking Age (around the 9th to 11th centuries ... the early Germanic alphabetical system that was used to write Proto-Norse (the ...

Luckily for any fan of Vikings, the Norse gods are one of the most developed pantheons in the game, offering up fan favorites like Loki and Thor as well as the more obscure heroes of mythology ...

Uncover the fascinating Viking-age monetary system with the analysis of a thousand-year-old iron ring from Sweden.

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Gherezgher shot 10 for 14 (5 for 7 from 3-point range) and 1 of 3 from the free-throw line for the Norse (11-13 ... Tevin Smith led the Vikings (17-7, 11-2) in scoring, finishing with 18 points ...