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 ...

A short entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes how in 789AD Viking ships landed on Britain's shores and immediately killed a local official who welcomed them. This was just the beginning of what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Model of the original Viking fortress at Trelleborg in Denmark. A local authority on the Danish island of West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original ...

An engraved ring has suggested evidence of close contact between Viking Age Scandinavians and the Islamic world, more than a century after it was discovered. The excavation site at a Viking trading ...