From herding reindeer to scuba diving in wintry waters, Gordon gets to the heart of traditional ... here through the bitter winter months, Norwegians know that “Viking season” is when their ...

Before there was Christmas, there was the Viking winter solstice celebration known as Yule. Many raucous traditions from this pagan holiday evolved into the Christmas rituals we still observe today.

Vikings were trading with Eskimos hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" North America, suggests a new ...

The word Sheringham is thought to be a combination of the Old Norse word ... the idea of traditional seaside towns being [active only from] May to September". "No marauding Vikings are going ...