INNLANDET, NORWAY – History enthusiasts are thrilled by a first-grader's astonishing discovery in Norway of a Viking-era sword dating back over 1,000 years. Earlier this month, a first-grade student ...
Old Norse literature about Vikings is filled with famous last stands, audacious last words, death songs and defiance. When men died in battle, it was believed that the war-god Odin gathered chosen ...
French Merovingians (5th-8th century): Clovis, Clotilde, St Remi, other kings and queens of the first French dynasty, dukes, counts and countesses, France, engraving by Bernati from a drawing by ...