Kaizers Orchestra, a unique Norwegian rock band, will perform in NYC on Oct. 10 to celebrate the Restauration's voyage. The ...

Kaizers Orchestra, a unique Norwegian rock band, will perform in NYC on Oct. 10 to celebrate the Restauration’s voyage. The band is known for theatrical concerts blending rock, theater, and ...

The look on the lady’s face said it all as she grabbed at the Thor’s hammer dangling from my necklace. “Skinheads wear these,” she snarled. “Racists and Nazis!” “I do Viking reenactment,” I explained, ...

Neanderthal humans (Homo neanderthalensis) are documented in European contexts for around 430,000 years, according to new studies. The accepted genomic contribution of Neanderthal DNA in modern Homo ...

Munch and Expressionism, an intriguing exhibit at the Neue Galerie, is on view through June 13, 2016. The first sentence in the Neue Galerie’s mission statement explains its purpose: “a museum devoted ...

Though Norwegian Americans practically define who they are through the eating of lutefisk during the Christmas season, I have found to my surprise that the vast majority of Norwegian Americans know ...

There are about half a million sheep in Iceland but only around 360,000 people. The sheep are bred almost exclusively for the meat and the wool. They are usually shorn twice a year, in spring and fall ...

Over the years’s, it’s been a song that is often sung at gatherings in the Scandinavian-American community across North America. I once sang it at a concert in Iceland with my old friend and musical ...

Spring is officially here with the rhubarb harvest. I’ve been a rhubarb enthusiast since I was a kid, and my love for the vegetable grows stronger by the year. Rhubarb was the first thing I planted ...

I have to admit that before I traveled to Fargo, N.D., I knew very little about it. My exposure was more or less limited to having seen the Coen brothers classic crime movie Fargo (see John Smistad’s ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fittest of them all? You may never have this conversation with the quicksilver on your wall, but many athletes are waking up today in Sochi, Russia and asking ...

Most American tourists to Oslo have visited the museums at Bygdøy, thrilling to the sight of the Kon-Tiki raft, the Polar ship Fram, and the long ships in the Viking Ship Museum. We’ve wandered the ...