Picture a Viking. What comes to mind? Probably a tall, fierce, blond warrior with braided hair and broad shoulders—someone you wouldn’t want to face in battle, but wouldn’t mind sharing a drink with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Join in a celebration of Viking history and culture at this year's Viking Festival, which takes place May 15-17 at the Hookstown ...

Viking Age stories often involve modern-day Denmark, the fjords of Norway, the British Isles and Iceland, yet one overlooked stronghold of Viking history lay far north of the Arctic Circle. The sagas ...

It's the fourth year in a row the festival has been held at Ballydugan Medieval Settlement.

Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages. Ruins like these at Igaliku, once the religious heart of the ...