As white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, the high priest of a pagan religion looked on with horror from Reykjavik, Iceland. It wasn’t just their racist message that bothered him. It was ...

"Vikings" doesn't present viewers with perfect Christians or sanitized Vikings. It shows the messy, bloody, deceitful way humans engage in a quest for power . (Bernard Walsh/History) The clash of ...

The U.S. Army granted a rare religious accommodation to a Fort Leonard Wood staff sergeant who is a member of the “Heathen, Norse Pagan faith.” The move came as a result of the Army authorizing beards ...

According to scholars of Scandinavian studies, ideas about Vikings and pagan Norse mythology today can often not be verified scientifically. “They are based essentially on reports written by Christian ...

The clash of religion, politics and conquest in the History Channel's hit series "Vikings" slowly maps out how the Nordic warriors gave up their gods and adopted Christianity after centuries of ...