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When you think about the Vikings, you probably imagine fierce blond warriors clad in metal armor, boasting larger-than-life nicknames. Guess what: This mental picture isn't 100 percent historically ...

Norse seafarers from Scandinavia, popularly known as Vikings, have a certain reputation. We often picture them as towering figures in horned helmets, sailing the seas purely to raid and cause chaos.

Vikings are the focus of countless movies, TV shows, video games, sports teams, and comic books today—but that doesn't mean we always get them right. From the myths surrounding their horned helmets to ...

These Nordic warriors maintain a strong grip on our imagination but - as a new book explains - it wasn't all sex and ­violence. Reign of terror: TV drama Vikings is filmed in Wicklow They came, they ...

Will Magnus Chase do for Norse mythology what Percy Jackson did for the classical Greek pantheon—make it extremely popular with kid readers again? Topher Bradfield, the children’s outreach coordinator ...

"Ragnarok," a site-specific dance inspired by Norse mythology, returns tonight to Southeast Portland's ruined Rexel/Taylor Electric Supply Co. building. (Michael Russell, The Oregonian) The fires are ...