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Mythbusting Viking Culture I’ve been making my way through the Vikings series on the History Channel (I know, I’m late, I’m sorry) and those people are ATTRACTIVE. As Ragnar smirks at everyone just begging for them to look at his abs, I sometimes wonder...

Happy birthday to us: Incredible but true: Interesting Thing of the Day is 10 years old! You’d be surprised how few literary examples of goblet-throwing there are. I mean, sure, this sort of thing shows up every now and then in your basic fantasy...

Richard Örlendr died over a thousand years ago. He lived in Norway during the Germanic Iron Age and trusted in the judgement of the gods. That is not to say he did not question them when they gave him a dragon, nor did he blindly follow their orders...

I'm pleased to announce the release of the next in our series of Hurstwic Viking Combat Training DVDs. (http://www.hurstwic.com/shop/index.htm) ...

Noted authority Dr. William R. Short, the author of Icelanders in the Viking Age: The People of the Sagas, is having an active summer.   Once again, he is teaching a summer course in Iceland at Háskólasetur Vestfjarða (University...