Talking like an 18th-century pirate? That is sooo “2000 and late.” These days, between the Thor movies and Loki on Disney+, or the TV series Vikings, it’s all about being ancient Norse marauders. Now, ...

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 ...

Vikings are all the rage these days. Assassin's Creed lets you book your foes a one-way-ticket to Valhǫll, Crusader Kings lets you cut a swathe across Miðgarðr as a Northern Lord, and of course, ...

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), famous for “Lord of the Rings,” was an Oxford philologist whose expertise in Old Germanic languages included Old Norse (the language spoken by the settlers of Iceland) and ...