A short message to wish all our readers around the world a Very Happy Easter.

Our hard-working scribes are taking a well-deserved break this week. In the meantime, we can recommend two Easter-related articles from seasons past:

In The surprising pagan origins of Easter, Jonathan Williamson looks at the supposed Germanic roots of the Easter celebration.

In Ēostre: Is the pagan origin of Easter a complete fabrication? Jonathan Bennett looks at the reliability of these claims, and whether they might have been invented centuries after Easter was first celebrated.

All the best, The Viking Herald Team

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Jonathan Bennett is a freelance writer and translator from the UK. He has had a passionate interest in the Vikings ever since a family trip to Denmark as a seven-year-old, where he came face to face with a stunning Viking longship and plundered a superb Viking shield and axe from the museum gift shop. After studying at the Norse stronghold of York, Jonathan moved to Leeds and later Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, before settling down in Budapest.