Wherever they went, Vikings turned to runes to express both the poetic ("Listen, ring-bearers, while I speak/Of the glories in war of Harald, most wealthy") and the prosaic ("Rannvieg owns this ...

Vikings: Valhalla’s cast is headlined by Sam Corlett, Frida Gustavsson, and Leo Suter, who play the three lead characters, Leif, Freydis, and Harald. Supporting cast members include Johannes ...

The cast of Vikings: Valhalla Season 3 includes Sam Corlett as Leif Erikson, Frida Gustavsson as Freydís Eiríksdóttir, Leo ...

In Viking times, a king had to be strong to fight ... Duke William of Normandy and Harald Hardrada, the King of Norway, were not happy that Harold became king. They both believed they had a ...

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 ...

Harald Sigurdsson was born into this world about the year 1015 ... Don Hollway, the author of The Last Viking, is a gifted story teller, with a firm understanding of the difficulties medieval texts ...

Next up was the King of Norway, Harald Hardrada, or hard ruler- a formidable Viking warrior. His claim was also based on an earlier promise made to his father. Between 1016 and 1042, England had ...