Harald Fairhair began life as a teenage warrior fighting to defend his father’s legacy in a land torn apart by petty kings. Over ten brutal years he burned homes, crushed rebellions, and slew rival ...

When you picture the Nordics, you're probably thinking Stockholm's ocher-colored Gamla Stan and winding canals, Copenhagen's ...

Long ago, the inhabitants of Norway lived in warring tribes and villages. It was not until the 872 Battle of Hafrsfjord that the fractious clans of habitable Norway were united under a single ruler – ...

In 2018 metal detectorists in Norway found curiously shaped and obviously old iron rivets scattered around in the shallow soil of a field at Jarlsberg Hovedgård (Jarlsberg Manor), the ancestral home ...

'Put it in first gear and press the Turbo button!' I yell. Moments later, my struggling wife rockets past me on an e-bike up a narrow, stony path. We're cycling on a 'shore experience' in Hellesylt, ...

Imagine a love so powerful it conquered kingdoms. In the 9th century, lowly Viking sea-king Harald Fairhair fell for the beautiful Gyda. She would only marry him if he became king of all Norway.

Patrick Sullivan, 53, of North Springfield was adopted as a baby by Jack and Patsy Sullivan and grew up in a loving family in Arlington. The Sullivan household was Irish, with dad being the Chapter ...

Prime Video’s Viking drama Bloodaxe has added five as series regulars: Karlis Arnolds Avots (January), Rod Hallett (Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes), Alina Tomnikov (Donna), Sisse ...

It’s just past five on an unusually crisp yet sunny May evening in Stavanger where the glass-panelled atrium of Finansparken, the iconic headquarters of SR Bank — one of Norway’s biggest — is ...