A new study has revealed that Nordic vikings were a lot more bloodthirsty than their neighbors, the Danish vikings. The findings were based on examining the prevalence of violence-induced trauma from ...

In this video we will make a Viking wootz sword with an amazing pattern on the blade. We smelted this wootz ingot in our ...

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

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

This is the intriguing story of how an 8-year-old girl stumbled across a sword that experts say could pre-date the vikings.