A practical guide to visiting Norway, with an overview of travel logistics, local customs and simple tips for making the most ...

As Norway settles into fall, debates over declining student performance and political accountability continue, while football ...

As Norway settles into fall, debates over declining student performance and political accountability continue, while football fans remain enthusiastic about the national team despite a difficult run ...

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 ...

Norway shares its land border with three other countries. The longest shared border is with Sweden to the east, a stretch of 1,010 miles. In the far north, in Finnmark County, there’s a 457-mile ...

Though Norwegian Americans practically define who they are through the eating of lutefisk during the Christmas season, I have found to my surprise that the vast majority of Norwegian Americans know ...

Cod and herring are the most acclaimed fish in Norwegian myth and literature. The Icelandic skald Snorri Sturluson mentions them in his medieval-period writings, as do later Norwegian authors, ...

Most American tourists to Oslo have visited the museums at Bygdøy, thrilling to the sight of the Kon-Tiki raft, the Polar ship Fram, and the long ships in the Viking Ship Museum. We’ve wandered the ...

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 ...

For over 48 years, her life and death have remained a mystery. Isdalskvinnen, the “Isdal Woman” or the “Woman from Ice Valley,” is one of the most famous unsolved cases in recent Norwegian history.

If you only have a long weekend or a short week for a vacation this summer, it might be difficult to get away to Norway, but you could take a trip to the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin.