The Vikings were far from a monolithic group. The Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes each brought something different to the table ...

Happy with the inaugural Great Northern Viking Festival, founder Inga From eyed the revelry she and volunteers helped create during the weekend at Jack McGowan farm. From said the all-volunteer effort ...

Before ski jumping and cross-country skiing were contested as separate and individual events, nordic combined was a popular competition at carnivals throughout Norway in the 1800s. Nordic combined is ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- How much do you really know about our Vikings? Not the football players, but the Nordic explorers they're named after. Centuries before our NFL team roamed the field, fur-clad ...

This article appears in print in the May 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. What comes to mind when you think of the word “Nordic”? Classic cross-country skiing? Vikings? Snowflake patterns on knit ...

A weekend getaway includes a sojourn to the past, Viking style, and a futuristic romp SEATTLE — The striking zinc-clad structure rises dramatically from the street, long, narrow and high, rather like ...

When you’re making a show about Vikings, the horned helmet really is unavoidable. “I had to make one,” chuckles Joan Bergin, costume designer for History’s new original scripted series “Vikings.” She ...

Tracing your family history can be a rewarding task. Family names are an easy way to identify with a religion, ethnicity or historical place you come from, no matter how watered down your lineage ...

STOCKHOLM & OSLO, Norway & COPENHAGEN, Denmark & HELSINKI & TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the popular family history network announced today a market expansion initiative focused on ...

Before ski jumping and cross-country skiing were contested as separate and individual events, Nordic combined was a popular competition at carnivals throughout Norway in the 1800s. Nordic combined is ...

Nordic combined was contested at the inaugural Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France, and has been a part of every Winter Olympics since then. It is one of six sports that has been on the program ...