From words we use daily, to leaps in shipbuilding, placenames, cuisine and more, Edythe Preet explores all that the Vikings left behind in Ireland. One day while searching for I can’t remember what in ...

In the Old Norse language, Viking may have meant “men of the bays”— sheltered coves were where they lay in ambush of merchant ships. Price likens them to 17th- and 18-century pirates—an idea that ...