These classic medieval board games have been lovingly recreated on iOS so they can be enjoyed well into the 21st century. Quicker to play than Chess or Checkers, Morris is the perfect game to play on your iPhone while waiting for a just few minutes.

The City of Nottingham has started to cash in on the hype for the upcoming Robin Hood movie by teaming up with Universal Films and director Ridley Scott to create an exhibition at Nottingham Castle and Sherwood Forest. Furthermore, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council have declared May Robin Hood Month.

Helvetian folk metal outfit Eluveitie have posted the whole of their new album, due for release on February 19th, on their Myspace page. The album, Everything Remains (As It Never Was), will be to listen to for free right up until the official release date.

Nuclear Blast, the Swiss bands label, has also released four preview trailer videos along with the music video for the track Thousandfold.

Thousandfold

One of the 4 preview videos

Promotional video for the new CD from the Odinic Rite.

Hollywood actor and director Mel Gibson’s next directing project will be an as-yet untitled film about Vikings, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Variety” reported on Monday.

“This will be an awe-inspiring story, created with some of the industry?s finest cinematic talent and I am just over the moon to be making this film with Mel, Leo and Bill,” said the film’s producer Graham King in a statement.

Baltasar Kormakur, Iceland’s best known film director, has started work on a new high-budget Viking movie. This will be the most expensive film ever made in Iceland with an estimated budget of 60 million dollars.

Baltasar, who is probably the most popular movie director in Iceland, became famous for directing “101 Reykjavik” some years ago. His new movie is partly based on the stories of Njal (”Njals saga”), a Viking herse and his family living in Norway and Iceland. The sagas are full of dramatic stories, and they are a very important part of the history of the Icelanders.

A burglar leaped out of a first floor window after being disturbed by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor.

Torvald Alexander was still wearing a red cape and the thunder god’s silver-winged helmet and breastplate after a New Year’s Eve fancy dress party when he discovered the man rummaging through drawers in the front room of his home in Inverleith, Edinburgh.

Alexander, a 6ft builder who had made his costume out of tin foil, frightened the intruder by charging at him.

Islam should be treated more sensitively by the media than Christianity, according to the director general of the BBC.

Mark Thompson claimed that because Muslims are a religious minority in Britain and also often from ethnic minorities, their faith should…

Icelandic-Swedish Viking film Embla (2007), directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, will have its US debut at a student conference hosted by the German and Scandinavian studies division at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) on February 15.

Embla is the director’s…

Joanne Harris’ “Runemarks” follows a young girl’s adventures among Scandinavian gods and goblins; in case you’re wondering, there’s still plenty of myth to go around in the young adult market.

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