Buried at the Hezingen site, researchers discovered 25 gold coins, as well as gold pendants and a fragment of a silver ...

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What are the best Viking games on PC? The Vikings weren’t the most diplomatic group of settlers in history. The famous seafaring hustlers made haste across Northern Europe, causing chaos ...

Pagan influence is present in the iconography of Catholic churches across Montreal. Photo Rebekah Walker Christian iconography is fused with religious devotion, becoming synonymous with the faith ...

With the Nordic Soundscapes Festival, Thomas Sondergard puts his stamp on the Minnesota Orchestra (and its interior spaces). Thomas Sondergard, outside of Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis ...

The leader of the opposition United People’s Alliance (UPA), Gen. Pagan Amum, has expressed cautious optimism regarding the ongoing peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya. The talks, known as the Tumaini ...

Nordic noir, also known as Scandinavian noir, has been a popular genre since the 1990s, but it’s the streaming boom of the 2010s that really helped make it an international favorite. Gritty ...

have tried to misappropriate Vikings and other pagan societies, celebrating them for being pre-Christian and portraying them as entirely white. It echoes the way the Nazis idolised the Norse, ...

The obvious answer to this mystery is that it was a result of Theodosius’ decrees regarding the destruction of pagan sites. These decrees were ... One of the icons on the slab was a sun symbol which ...

The second book of Kings describes Hezekiah’s suppression of pagan places of worship, or “high places.” It outlines how he “removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones” and “did ...

Thankfully the symbols they use are (mostly) universal, so once you've learned what each represents (as we explain below) you shouldn't have any problems no matter what you find in your laundry basket ...

potentially reverting to Norse paganism) to Christianity. Reaching Greenland in 1721 with a small group of ships, Egede instead found Inuit communities living in a world profoundly different from his ...