Whether your name was Snorri or Erik, your daily life as a Viking was a meat-filled, chess-playing, human-sacrificing ...

In her second book about Norse culture, historian Eleanor Barraclough calls these bogs “gateways between worlds”. They spit forth objects that sometimes tell us more about a very distant culture.

When we think about Norse ... culture and ancient Scandinavia. The story begins when we’re introduced to Magnus Chase, a Boston native living on the wrong side of the tracks. By way of his ...