What is it about the Viking Age that drives so much interest? A common view is that it was a violent period across Europe, ...

“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

A new display showcases the "extraordinary" Viking and Bronze Age treasures unearthed on the Isle of Man over the past 200 ...

New research has revealed the horrors of the Viking age, as the study of skulls showed evidence of devastating disease and infections. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden used ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers—and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the realities ...

Archaeologists have identified the possible remains of a marketplace from the Viking Age on a Norwegian farm. The farm is located at Utstein on the island of Klosterøy, which lies off the southwestern ...

New evidence shows that the remote North Atlantic archipelago was settled hundreds of years before the Vikings reached its shores Sheep graze in the Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic ...

Viking warriors drew their shields, artisans displayed their wares and visitors strolled about in medieval and fantasy gear for the final day of the Ohio Viking Festival. The three-day festival ...

There's a background character in The Northman you probably blinked and missed. But her appearance, however brief, electrified me more than any other thrill in director Robert Eggers' bombastic new ...

Alexander Skarsgård stars as Amleth, a Viking prince who seeks to avenge the murder of his father. Aidan Monaghan / Focus Features The Northman opens with black wings over gray water. Ravens fly above ...