On Scotland’s Shetland Islands, a fire festival called Up Helly Aa celebrates the region’s Norse heritage. It takes place ...

After waiting for 18 years, a man from Shetland becomes a Viking chief that leads the famous Up Helly Aa festival.

Up Helly Aa transforms Lerwick in the Shetland Islands every January as over 1,000 torch-bearing Vikings march through the ...

If you haven't been keeping up, this is an historical, story-driven RPG — penned by author Giles Kristian — that sees you ...

Archaeologists in Denmark say a sunken Viking ship near Copenhagen is the largest boat of its kind ever discovered—and that’s saying something. At nearly 92 feet long, the 600-year-old vessel is also ...