Kate Butchart brings Norwegian floating sauna culture to Saratoga Lake with Kos Sauna, New York’s first public floating sauna ...

Skjolden, at the innermost tip of Norway’s Sognefjord, offers dramatic fjord sailing, alpine excursions, UNESCO-listed Urnes ...

A new book examines Stavanger as a model smart, sustainable city, exploring its use of technology, governance, and urban ...

Norway House honored Dr. Kenneth Holmen, Leslee Lane Hoyum, and Mark Larson with Going Viking Awards for their leadership, ...

Norway House honored Dr. Kenneth Holmen, Leslee Lane Hoyum, and Mark Larson with Going Viking Awards for their leadership, innovation, and dedication to Norwegian-American culture, community service, ...

The look on the lady’s face said it all as she grabbed at the Thor’s hammer dangling from my necklace. “Skinheads wear these,” she snarled. “Racists and Nazis!” “I do Viking reenactment,” I explained, ...

Neanderthal humans (Homo neanderthalensis) are documented in European contexts for around 430,000 years, according to new studies. The accepted genomic contribution of Neanderthal DNA in modern Homo ...

There are about half a million sheep in Iceland but only around 360,000 people. The sheep are bred almost exclusively for the meat and the wool. They are usually shorn twice a year, in spring and fall ...

Spring is officially here with the rhubarb harvest. I’ve been a rhubarb enthusiast since I was a kid, and my love for the vegetable grows stronger by the year. Rhubarb was the first thing I planted ...

When Suzannah Warlick was growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had no idea that she would one day make a documentary film about the European Jews who escaped to freedom and safety in Sweden during World ...

Education Minister Kari Nessa Nordtun (Labor Party) agrees with a government-appointed screen use committee on several points. She believes that the digitization of Norwegian schools has failed. “I ...

The farm sprite, later known as nisse, has a long history in Norse tradition. The oldest witness is found in the 12th-century Saga of Olaf Trygvason. In 981 A.D., an old Icelander reminds his ...