After being inhabited only by Indigenous peoples for centuries, the Arctic island saw the Vikings in the 10th century and the ...

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As the Hebrides passed through pagan, Norse and Scottish rule, one voice endured above the turmoil: St. Columba, whose ...

While maybe not as extreme as a murder of crows, their corvid cousin the raven also gets a bit of a raw deal.

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In the late 10th century, a Norse explorer named Erik the Red found himself in exile from Iceland, banished for manslaughter.

GRAFFITI expert Tom Standage believes that historians used to be “sniffy” about street art – until they realised it offered a unique window into the past. The author has penned a whole book ...

In Trump’s speech at the Davos World Economic Forum, he blamed 'Iceland' for the US stock market dip, saying 'Iceland' ...

Irksome, a word originating from Middle English, captures mild, persistent frustrations of daily life. It describes annoying ...

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No one ever sat down and suddenly spoke “English” for the first time. The language crept into existence slowly, through messy ...