There’s something about Celtic myths that settles into you. Not in a loud way. More like a quiet tug, the kind you feel when a story hits a part of you that’s older than your memories. These myths ...

What do we know about the legendary island of Thule from ancient Greek records? Do we know where it really was?

Martin O’Neill insists Celtic WILL splash the cash in the frantic final days of the transfer window. The Hoops are chasing several targets but are set to miss out on Bodo/Glimt striker Kasper Hogh ...

Natasha Sumner does not answer that question in her latest book, Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna .She ...

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Heinrich Himmler and other Third Reich occultists in the 1930s latched onto the strange idea that the Aryan race was not the product of evolution but descended from semidivine beings who left the ...

As the days begin to get longer, thousands gather across Ireland and Scotland to celebrate the return of the light after a long, dark winter. The Gaelic festival of Imbolc is one of the earliest ...

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

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