Where: 4045 St Helena Hwy, Calistoga, CA 94515 This storybook mansion looks like it was plucked right from a fairy tale and dropped into Southern California. The striking blue-green roof and elegant ...

The stone tells a dramatic story about Scandinavian explorers in Minnesota. The translated message states: “8 Goths [Swedes] ...

We all have at least one person in our lives who is tempted to start watching anime, but the overwhelming number of choices, ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered two 14,000-year-old mummified “puppies” with their fur still intact and food still in their stomachs. Hidden beneath deep layers of permafrost in ...

A mysterious stone slab engraved with Nordic runes has been discovered deep in the Canadian wilderness, puzzling ...

While both Sweden and Denmark have Viking Age heritage sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Norway does not. 'That's a bit ...

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from ...

A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed an Early Middle Ages hoard that contains 200 artifacts, including a pendant that may be a cross or an unfinished Thor's hammer.

Despite dating to the centuries after the Viking age, sagas and legal texts provide words and stories about childbearing that the Vikings' immediate descendants used and circulated.

A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely tied to conflict, social status, and the harsh realities of life and death.

This evidence depicts pregnant women as being adorned with martial gear, ready for combat. A surviving singular Viking Age figurine convincingly displays a pregnant body wearing a martial helmet.

Pregnancy was deeply political and far from uniform in meaning for Viking-age communities. It shaped – and was shaped by – ideas of social status, kinship and personhood.