Interested in Scandinavian history? How would you like to take a step back in time and meet the last Viking king? No, you don’t need a time machine to make this happen. All you need to do is ...

Hardicanute, King of Denmark, had also been king of England in 1042. His short reign gave his descendents, who included Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, a claim to the English throne. When Harold ...

If published as a novel, the life of Harald Hardrada (c.?1015-1066) could quite easily be dismissed as highly improbable, yet, as one critic wrote many years ago in Amra, a publication devoted to ...