A large, gold Viking ring crafted from twisted metal strands and estimated to have belonged to a powerful Viking chief was discovered in the bundle of jewellery purchased by Mari Ingelin Heskestad.

Buried in a pile of costume jewelry was an ancient gold ring that archaeologists say once belonged to a powerful Viking chief. Mari Ingelin Gausvik Heskestad, from Norway, spotted the ring among cheap ...

The discovery of an Islamic inscription on a ring inside a Viking coffin has confirmed ancient tales about contact between Viking Age Scandinavia and the Islamic world. The silver ring, recovered from ...

Sweden's has had a strained relationship with the Arab world over the past few weeks, after the Scandinavian country came under a war of words with Saudi Arabia over human rights. But an engraved ring ...

An unidentified man found the armlet in a wetland last fall. Kalmar County Administrative Board Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first ...

More than a century after its discovery in a ninth century woman’s grave, an engraved ring has revealed evidence of close contacts between Viking Age Scandinavians and the Islamic world. Excavators of ...

Recent years have seen a few films and TV series try to buck the stereotypes established by early Hollywood tales of Vikings, with Robert Eggers’s The Northman joining the likes of The Last Kingdom ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered a distinctive ring-shaped Viking fortress which historians believe may have been used to launch an invasion of England. The fortress found on the Danish ...