The land doesn't give away any clues as to why it holds its chilling name - and no two local historians can agree on why the ...

Learn your F-U-TH's The runic alphabet, or Futhark, gets its name from its first six sounds (f, u, th, a, r, k), much like the word 'alphabet' derives from the first two letters of the Greek ...

The Lancashire heeler's exact origin is unknown and varies by source. Short-legged, sable and black dogs are depicted in Futhark and Runic symbolization and artwork dating from the 9th through the ...

English and the Norse tongues trace their oral cultures back to antiquity―Beowulf was composed in 650-1,000 CE, while the Elder Futhark runic inscriptions go back to the 1st century. But they ...