Troll 2 is the latest film to feature one of the most captivating monsters drawn from Norse mythology or the legends of Nordic countries.

Viking ancestry is far more common in Britain than most of us ever realised. A simple DNA kit could reveal your family’s own ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

Before surnames were a well-established way of telling one Olaf or Astrid from another, identifying nicknames were far more prevalent. Historical figures had their share of quirky epithets—from Albert ...

Norse myth teems with world-serpents, sky-riding horses, corpse-walkers, and whispering spirits, each woven through the poems of the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and legendary sagas. These beings ...

The story of Ymir and the creation of the universe typifies the emphasis on sacrifice as a theme, in Nordic myth and in creation stories around the world. In Norse mythology, Ymir was the primeval ...

Most Viking stories followed the oral tradition, meaning they were spoken stories passed on from person to person, and rarely written down. Unsurprisingly this led to major variations in how these ...

Long before Viking raids became legend, there were warriors who fought like no others — the Ulfheðnar, the wolf-warriors of Norse mythology. Covered in wolf pelts and consumed by fury, they entered ...

I flew in Norse Atlantic's premium economy for the first time from Paris to New York City. I don't usually fly with budget airlines, but I found myself pleasantly surprised by my trip. I loved having ...

On my hunt for flights to Europe this summer, one airline stood above — or should I say below — the rest. Norse Atlantic Airways, a transatlantic budget airline based in Norway, kept emerging from my ...