“Berserk” literally means “bear shirt,” and there are ample depictions in Viking-era carvings of warriors wearing bear or wolf skins over their helmets. “It may be a cult group or a ...

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates today's modern reimaginings of this ancient history) is partaking in the spoils of a violent raid on an ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...