This video explores how the Norse world transformed from pagan warriors to Christian kingdoms. Tracing the gradual ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced several changes to military fitness and culture to hundreds of generals and admirals ...

It is unclear how the military's crackdown on facial hair will affect troops who request religious waivers to wear beards.

Across the lands of the frozen north, the Norse “gods” are returning. Nordic paganism is now Iceland’s fastest-growing religion. From 570 members in 2002, the “association of the faith of the Æsir” — ...

Some troops soon tested the policy’s boundaries. In 2018, one soldier won approval for a beard by claiming adherence to the Norse Pagan faith, identifying himself as a Heathen. In 2019, Army Spc. John ...