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Kon-Tiki is the title of a very interesting, fascinating, and adventurous novel by Norwegian author, ethnographer, and explorer Thor Heyerdahl which was published in 1948, based on the namesake expedition carried out one year earlier. It revolves around a brave voyage of the author alongside his crew consisting of several… Read more »

Norn (alternatively known as Norroena) is an extinct North Germanic language which was very close to Old Norse (or norr쎸nt as it is known in Norwegian Bokm쎥l), the language the Norse spoke during the tumultuous Viking Age, a historical period of time that was part of the Early Middle Ages.… Read more »

The Norse discovery of North America is well-known and quite well documented throughout the passage of time, initially recounted in the famous Icelandic sagas (whose authorship was and remains quasi-anonymous) written down during the High Middle Ages in Iceland (more specifically the Saga of the Greenlanders or Gr쎦nlendinga saga as… Read more »

The island of Crete as well as the adjacent islands in the Sea of Crete and the Libyan Sea (more specifically in the region known as the South Cretan Sea) were home to a thriving and advanced civilisation during the Bronze Age, widely regarded as Europe’s first and eldest civilisation.… Read more »

The LEGO Knights’ Kingdom browser games were some of the most captivating browser games of my childhood. As a kid (and even to this very day) I was a big fan of LEGO and, more specifically, a big fan of the Castle and Knights’ Kingdom II theme respectively sub-theme (LEGO… Read more »

The myth or legend of the sunken continent of Atlantis (with the namesake concentric city) has been both fascinating as well as considered pseudo-science throughout the passage of time. Aside from the conventional location of the legendary sunken continent somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean, numerous other locations across the… Read more »

Many know of the legendary Valhalla (or Valh잫ll as it is known in Old Norse, the language of the Norsemen during the Viking Age), by far the most popular form of Norse afterlife, a great hall or palace of Odin (the leader of the 쎆sir gods) which exists in a… Read more »

Finland (known in Finnish as Suomi) is a beautiful country situated in Northern Europe, more specifically in Fennoscandia (and not Scandinavia as it is sometimes mistakenly labelled). In this brief article, 10 interesting facts that you should know about it are enlisted below. 10. Finland is a very densely forested… Read more »

This article consists of 10 interesting facts or things you should know about Sweden, a beautiful Scandinavian and Nordic country situated in Northern Europe. 10. Sweden is the most populous Scandinavian state, with a population that surpassed 10.5 million people (as of 2025). Sweden is thus the 10th most populous… Read more »

Landnama is a survival-based video game developed by Sonderland Games set in Viking Age Iceland, revolving around the Norse settlement of the island. The title of the video game references the medieval manuscript Landn쎡mab쎳k (i.e. the Book of the Settlements in Old Icelandic or Old Norse) which recounts the Norse… Read more »