The seafaring life of a Viking was rough in days of yore. But today, Denmark, one of the ancestral homes of Vikings, often ranks at the top of lists of countries with the best quality of life. Its ...

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Just days before the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are set to begin, U.S. skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender is still fighting for a spot. The American is at the center of a controversy after the ...

The world of the 11th century was bound together less by nations and more by people — by families, whose loyalties crossed seas, by dynasties with roots in several lands at once. A Scandinavian noble ...