The Vikings were unstoppable not just because of their raiding skills but because of their advanced techniques in ...

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 ...

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

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

A major museum recently unearthed a Viking board game piece originally found in 1797. Denmark’s National Museum recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind Viking “portrait,” which researchers claim is the ...

Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...