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 ...

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 ...

A Viking woman found in Norway with scallop shells over her mouth leaves experts puzzled about the meaning behind this burial ...

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site ...

A well-preserved Viking Age grave featuring a previously unknown funerary ritual in Norway has been excavated in the locality ...

“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 ...

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

Additional discoveries included the remains of horses and riders buried alongside each other, along with their equipment.

Experts at the National Library of Norway believe the liturgical songbook was made by a local artisan around A.D. 1200.

Archaeologists in Norway found a 1,200-year-old Viking woman's grave with mysterious scallop shells over her mouth. Discover ...

It was a place where Kings, Picts and Vikings mingled and the powerful wished to be seen, both in life and in death. Govan on ...

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.