Little is known about the Völva - which means “staff bearer” in Old Norse - but historians ... “There were some rules in Viking society providing women with a little bit more privileged ...

There's a background character in The Northman you probably blinked and missed. But her appearance, however brief, electrified me more than any other thrill in director Robert Eggers' bombastic ...

They brought Norse laws with them and ruled for nearly ... Kjellström discovered that the man was in fact a woman. This nameless Viking woman seems to have commanded the respect of many Viking ...

The people of Shetland, a group of islands north of Scotland, are welcoming the arrival of spring in dramatic style – by ...

Here he offers his insights into what drove the Vikings on their global explorations, how Norse scholars today view ... about killing churchmen or women or children. “They weren’t out to ...

Though the Vikings established a strong foothold in the British Isles, the Norse languages didn’t come to dominate. Though few words were adopted into standard English, there are still words used ...

His words: “I feel blessed and deeply excited that Amazon has given me the opportunity to return to the fantastic world of the Norse Sagas and the men, women and gods of the Viking world who ...