“The preservation, the jewellery, the symbolism, it’s extraordinary on multiple levels,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) archaeologist Raymond Sauvage says of the discovery of a ...

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

Viking age people who lived in what is now Norway were far more likely to be violently killed than Viking age people who lived in Denmark, a new analysis reveals. The findings were surprising to the ...

Vikings in Norway were more violent towards each other than previously thought, according to a new study that sheds more light on rules and their enforcement in these early European societies. Until ...

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 ...

Everyone who had been on board a stranded cruise ship, including many Americans, was safe Monday morning after a terrifying voyage off the coast of Norway. The Viking Sky was carrying just over 1,300 ...

A hunky Norwegian naval lieutenant has been dubbed a “modern-day Viking” for conquering Instagram with his muscles, well-groomed beard, and tousled mane. Related: Dentist Beards Are the New Lumberjack ...

OSLO — Two of Norway’s greatest cultural treasures, the preserved Viking longships Oseberg and Gokstad, managed to survive sea voyages more than a thousand years ago, followed by centuries interred in ...

When the couple removed the floor, they began to find stones and pieces of iron. Archaeologists believe they are from the Viking Age. A Norwegian couple got quite the shock when renovating their old ...