Dinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association’s annual Viking funeral on Saturday evening was another roaring success. It was a pa ...

Darwin’s beloved Viking Funeral festival returns to Dinah Beach this Saturday night featuring a dragon double last year’s ...

From Egyptian mummification to Victorian mourning codes, these historic funeral traditions reveal how humans have always ...

Chief Petty Officer Joshua Marzi and Petty Officer 3rd Class Kyle Breen-Tapia,, crew members from Coast Guard Station Atlantic City, N.J., place a handmade, wooden boat into the ocean approximately ...

The historic Leif Erikson Viking ship, long neglected in Duluth, has finally found a forever home on the North Shore. Photo courtesy of Paul von Goertz of the Knife River Heritage and Cultural Center ...

The U.S. Coast Guard launched a World War II veteran’s Viking longship carrying his ashes on Sept. 29, as requested. The doors to Valhalla are open to a New Jersey veteran given a Viking funeral by ...

World War II veteran Andrew Haines decided years ago that he wanted a Norse-inspired funeral upon his death, and the U.S. Coast Guard obliged. Mr. Haines, who emigrated from Norway in 1927, scaled ...

The Coast Guard carries out dozens of burials at sea in a given year, but one World War II veteran got a unique farewell. On Sept. 29, Station Atlantic City fulfilled the final wishes of service ...