Edvard Munch painted one of the most recognisable images in the world, but the man behind The Scream was far more than one picture. Here is his story, the thefts, and where to see his work in Oslo.
Gotland is Sweden's largest island, home to the UNESCO-listed medieval town of Visby, the raukar sea stacks of Fårö and some of the sunniest weather in the country. Here is how to plan a trip.
Air-dried on wooden racks in Lofoten, stockfish has fed Europe for a millennium. Discover how tørrfisk is made, the Venetian shipwreck that sold it to Italy, and why Nigeria is a devoted customer.
Kungsleden, the King's Trail, runs roughly 440 km through Swedish Lapland from Abisko to Hemavan. Here is how to hike it: the best sections, mountain huts, the season, and what to pack.
Photo by Erik Mclean on Pexels. A general Viking-style runestone, not the Jelling stones themselves. In the tenth century a Danish king raised a stone that names Denmark, announces his conversion to Christianity and, a thousand years later, lent his nickname to the wireless technology in your pocket.
Ericsson began in 1876 as a tiny Stockholm repair shop with SEK 1,000 of borrowed money. Here is how it grew into a telecom giant, built the first multinational mobile network and even helped give Bluetooth its Viking name.
The story of Poul Henningsen's PH lamp and Louis Poulsen: how a Danish critic invented glare-free light with the three-shade system, and why the PH 5, Artichoke and Snowball still define Nordic lighting.
Bornholm Travel Guide: Denmark’s Sunny Baltic Island of Round Churches, Smokehouses and Castle Ruins
Bornholm is Denmark's granite island in the Baltic, with the largest castle ruin in Northern Europe, four medieval round churches, smokehouse chimneys and some of the sunniest weather in the country. Here is how to plan a visit.
How Jean Sibelius, the composer of Finlandia, gave Finland its sound: the Kalevala, seven symphonies, the silence of Ainola, and where to find him in Helsinki.
Glögg, gløgg and glögi are the scent of the Nordic winter. Learn how Scandinavian mulled wine differs from glühwein, how each country serves it, and how to make it at home.
Roughly 290,000 Finns speak Swedish as their mother tongue. Here is how Finland-Swedes came to be, what they built, and why the language question still stirs debate.
On 10 August 1628, Sweden's most ambitious warship sailed less than a mile on its maiden voyage and sank in Stockholm harbour. Here is why the Vasa capsized, how it was raised in 1961, and what it tells us today.
