More than a thousand years ago, rebel Vikings and other settlers fleeing from Norway settled on a craggy, uninhabited island in the north Atlantic: Iceland. There they built a new world pretty much ...

Egil Skallagrimsson was one of the greatest Viking heroes. A poet at three and a killer at seven, he was a man who drank prodigiously and wielded his battleaxe with fearful force. Egil was big and ...

As a prelude to tonight's Hear and Now concert, Gavin Bryars has devised a binaural fantasy exploring the Icelandic saga of Egil: Viking warrior, poet, philosopher, drinker. Recorded entirely on ...

"The sagas and tales in this book are reprinted from the Complete sagas of Icelanders I-V, published 1997 by Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, Iceland, with minor alterations"--P. [lviii]. Egil's saga / ...

I was interested in the possibility that the Icelandic Viking Egil Skallagrimsson may have suffered from either Paget’s disease or fluorosis (17 September, p 48). But based on the symptoms reported in ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

Robert Worby introduced the London Sinfonietta, joined by Faroese bass Rúni Brattaberg, Chris Ekers and Sound Intermedia and conducted by Olari Elts, in a concert taken from the orchestra's Eastern ...