Shetland's biggest and most spectacular Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival is taking place in the capital Lerwick. It is one of 12 celebrating the islands' Norse heritage, culminating in the burning ...

Discover Viking York or go west to Oxford and the ... to summer’s Edinburgh Festival. You can’t come to Scotland and not see its lochs, the most famous of which are Loch Lomond in the Loch ...

IN this final column of a three-part series to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the writer Eric Linklater, I will start by asking ...

Happy with the inaugural Great Northern Viking Festival, founder Inga From eyed the revelry she and volunteers helped create during the weekend at Jack McGowan farm. From said the all-volunteer ...

Viking culture is beloved by many, so much so that a whole festival was planned around celebrating the heroes of the past.

A demonstration of traditional Norwegian dance helped kick off the Sons of Norway Skjold Lodge’s 32nd annual Norwegian ...

The family-owned Deerness Distillery on the Orkney Islands has opened its Dashing Deer Kitchen & Bar. The "welcoming new space" celebrates the archipelago's rich food culture, while supporting the ...

A project to remove non-native stoats from Orkney has boosted threatened birds and a species of vole found only on the islands, conservationists said. The Orkney Native Wildlife Project ...

Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines. While digging to find an ancient ...

Viking Therapeutics stock is up over 250% YTD, fueled by its potential weight-loss drug, VK2735. Mixed technical signals ahead of Q3 earnings, with long-term bullishness existing with near-term ...

Viking Therapeutics VKTX is set to report third-quarter earnings on Oct. 23, after market close. Since the company lacks a marketed drug in its portfolio, we do not expect it to record revenues ...