VIKINGS season 6, part B is coming to History US and Amazon Prime later this year. Before the final episodes of the last series arrives, fans are curious to know more about the infamous Norsemen. What ...

Although an Icelandic version of "Dracula" was published in 1900, English-speaking researchers did not discover until the 2010s that it was drastically different from Bram Stoker's original novel and ...

Dracula is one of the great works of literary fiction. Bram Stoker’s horror masterpiece has long been seen as one of the definitive works of the genre in countries around the world. But the internet ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees “Solarfri” posted, he or she needs no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means “when staff get an ...

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), famous for “Lord of the Rings,” was an Oxford philologist whose expertise in Old Germanic languages included Old Norse (the language spoken by the settlers of Iceland) and ...

Two centuries ago experts predicted that Icelandic would be a dead language by now. But the doomsayers can eat their words: Icelandic is alive and kicking despite an onslaught of English brought on by ...