Trying to reach Valhalla but haven’t yet died in battle? In the divine words of the bard Madonna, these Viking books will “take you there”. After all, who doesn’t want to get transported back to the ...

About 1,100 years ago, a girl named Hervor was born into a noble family in southern Norway. Separated early from her parents by warfare, she grew up the ward of a ruthless Viking queen who presided ...

The promise of freedom unlocked an inner drive in these immigrants, who were ready to meet vast horizons of the American heartland. Its great empty spaces could not be more dangerous than the great ...

THE SAGA or FRIDTJOF NANSEX—Jon Sorensen—Norton ($4.50). His Viking ancestors would have approved the first part of the late great Fridtjof Nansen’s life, would have misunderstood or laughed at the ...

“/ have heard it said that Arctic explorers are inferior men who would be lost in the civilized world.” So said Arctic Explorer Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen. who never understood what a man wanted ...