fl. 800s Scandinavian monarch whose military exploits, including a battle with Charlemagne, became legendary in medieval European literature. Lothbrok's story was recounted in several Icelandic sagas and the twelfth-century Gesta Danorum by...

Ragnar Lodbrok (Ragnar "Hairy-Breeks", Old Norse: Ragnarr Loðbrók) was a Norse legendary hero from the Viking Age who was thoroughly reshaped in Old Norse poetry and legendary sagas.[1][2] Although he is something of a hero in his native Scandinavia,...

Byline: Bill Ward; Staff Writer This is not a Superman deal, where the costumed he-man has a mild-mannered alter ego. Joe Juranitch is decidedly more soft-spoken than wild-haired, wild-eyed Ragnar, his not-so-secret identity at Vikings games. But he could give Clark Kent...

Recently elected to a third term as Iceland's head of state, President Grímsson reaffirms his commitment to cooperative development throughout the New North. AS MY TAXI DROVE UP THE TREELESS LANE leading to the presidential residence, my driver turned to me and said:...