Matthew Coker, visiting assistant professor, is teaching a course on Old Norse II, while William Quinn, Distinguished Professor, is teaching a course on the Middle English Lyric.

Carolyne Larrington has recently published The Old Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think with Thames and Hudson. As professor of medieval European literature, I have been exploring Old Norse ...

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Norway was racked by civil war. It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga, which is named after king Sverre Sigurdsson. The saga tells ...

Some 500 years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, a Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the ...

Dr. Mathias Nordvig, a professor of Norse mythology, sits down with WIRED to compare and contrast Marvel's interpretations of Norse gods. Dr. Nordvig goes into great detail about everything from ...

An old Norse story tells of a king's man being tossed down a well in 1197. An archeologist teamed up with an evolutionary genomicist to study DNA... Centuries-old remains found in a well may be man ...