Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know ...

Two friends discover Viking treasure - coins dating back 1,000 years that reveal trade routes and secrets of the Irish Sea.

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Archaeologists in Aarhus, Denmark, reported finding graves of 77 Viking in a medieval churchyard – a single site that ...

Historian and Zak Crawley fan Tom Holland is the cricket-loving half of the popular Rest Is History podcast, whose tour Down Under was timed to coincide with the Ashes. This is his take on cricket’s ...

Twenty-two pieces of silver bullion, including both raw ingots and flattened Viking arm rings, were discovered in the Galloway Hoard. Arm rings such as these, which are usually found in Ireland and ...

Centuries before modern travelers reached Norway’s Lofoten islands for the scenery, Viking chieftains settled here for fertile soil and rich fishing grounds.

Construction on a new road project in Sweden accidentally uncovered multiple Viking-age villages. One notable part of the discovery was a funerary pyre for a chieftain built up to be visible from far ...

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Construction on a new road project in Sweden accidentally uncovered multiple Viking-age villages. One notable part of the discovery was a funerary ...