Jackson Crawford, director of CU’s Nordic Studies program, studies and translates Old Norse, a language spoken by medieval Scandinavians. Here the native Coloradan talks Vikings, videos and his ...

WHEN Mr. Longfellow declared that the Manobozho legends of the Chippeways formed an Indian Edda, he spoke as a poet, not as an ethnologist. In the same spirit they might with as much justice have been ...

In a new book, Nancy Marie Brown traces J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary influences to 13th-century Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

Lovers of fantasy and science-fiction are often defensive about the escapism inherent in these genres, and are eager to push back by insisting that the greatest of these novels come out of serious ...