The text of the Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson reads more like a Monty Python screenplay than a testament to the deeds of a real ...

these writings are precious because they are more or less the only written sources we have from the Viking Age. No other text gives us as direct a line to the Norse themselves. The sagas ...

During the Viking Age, Gotland seems to have been a more egalitarian ... According to the Guta Saga, the saga of the Gotlanders, which was written down around 1220, an emissary from Gotland ...

He developed an interest in the Viking Age and saga literature at an early age, which led him to study Nordic languages in Kiel. He is now a Ph.D. research fellow at the Department of Language and ...

Crampons, also known as ice grips – with spikes that dig into the ice to stop people from slipping – are a relatively common ...