Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

In a recent study published in Cell, researchers investigated the history of Scandinavia for the period from the Roman period (between 1.0 CE and 400.0 CE) to the present, spanning over 2,000 years.

Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

We are a land of immigrants — from the indigenous peoples who came from Asia via the Bering Strait or from Polynesia on rafts, to the pioneers from the British Empire, to Scandinavians, Italians, ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

Paleogeneticists have taken a sweeping look at 297 ancient genomes from Scandinavia and compared them with genetic data from 16,500 living Scandinavians to better understand the genetic history of the ...

Two recent books chart the global reach of Scandinavian societies. Every nation harbors its own myths of world-historical greatness—even Iceland. No one is a more enthusiastic advocate for this tiny ...

Netflix's colonization of international television continues with the debut Friday of the eco-thriller “The Rain,” the first Netflix-financed series made in Denmark. Other streaming services have ...