Nordic legends, fearless warriors, and clever queens - the world of Vikings fascinates like no other era. After films and ...

Scholars of Scandinavian studies at the Cluster of Excellence are investigating cultural memories of pre-Christian Nordic ...

As she does every year, Heidi Klum has once again organised the legendary Heidiween party this Halloween. Anyone attending ...

Mike Marino, a Hollywood prosthetics designer and Ms. Klum’s longtime Halloween collaborator, said her costume this year was inspired by the snakelike, stop-motion Medusa from the 1981 movie “Clash of ...

In the upstate of South Carolina, the city of Walhalla is the sort of place that feels hand‑crafted for a feel‑good, ...

We’re all familiar with the pop culture depictions of Norse mythology that are shallow and trite at best, and often downright misleading. They owe far more to puerile fantasies of being a macho ...

The world of ancient Europe is full of unique myths, legends, heroes, and gods, many of which have survived through time to the present day. In many ways, these legends shaped the identities of modern ...

Interpol said Friday it has identified a cold case victim nicknamed "The Woman with the German keys" more than two decades after her corpse was found at the Dutch seaside. The case was solved thanks ...

Germany will no longer offer citizenship after three years of residency. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, of the center-right Christian Social Union, had opposed the law, effected by the previous ...

The recently elected mayor of a town in western Germany was in critical condition on Tuesday after she was found in her home with multiple stab wounds to her neck and abdomen. Iris Stalzer, 57, a ...