Just about every American child learns in school that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America--or, more accurately, a small island in the Caribbean--in 1492. What isn’t always taught is that the ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The Norse myths are my favorites. They embody power, strength, cunning and moral ambiguity. The Norse gods are flawed and tragic, much like the people who worshipped them. Odin, the ...

Neil Gaiman's "Norse Mythology" is the book to reach for when it feels like the world is coming to an end. Because it is coming to an end — at least, it is for the gods. The world ends by fire and ice ...

Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember. Some of his earliest memories are from Oland, a Swedish island on the Baltic Sea, where his great-grandfather built ...

Books about Vikings are riddled with stereotypes, the old and popular ones about horned helmets and Valkyries, the modern academic ones about peaceful traders and urban developers. Eleanor Rosamund ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, ...

Saniya Ahmed writes about video games that ignite her love of gaming. She is involved in gaming not only as a writer but as an artist. Inspired by video games and anime, she creates cyborg characters ...

WASHINGTON — Friday the 13th has a long-running reputation for being the day where nothing goes right. September 13 is one of two times Friday will fall on the 13th in all of 2024. The second instance ...

“Thor,” the first summer comic book blockbuster out of the gate, has a lot of that winking wit we’ve come to expect from our post-‘Spider Man” Marvel movies. It has a hunky, self-mocking young star, ...

Neil Gaiman’s “Norse Mythology” is the book to reach for when it feels like the world is coming to an end. Because it is coming to an end — at least, it is for the gods. The world ends by fire and ice ...

WASHINGTON — Friday the 13th has a long-running reputation for being the day where nothing goes right. There is one of two times Friday will fall on the 13th in all of 2023. The second instance occurs ...