Viking

Commentary There are many legends surrounding the discovery of the Americas: tales of Phoenician seafarers, Chinese explorers, Roman dissidents, West African traders with gold-tipped spears, and Irish monks, all long ...

The Viking king who introduced Christianity to Denmark had cross-bearing silver coins struck between the years 970 and ...

Ancient Scandinavians, often referred to as the Vikings, might not have been as simple and barbaric as they ...

Two Viking-era swords were recently unearthed by archaeologists in Sweden. The weapons were once plunged into the earth ...

The famed Ulfberht Viking swords were made of metal so pure it baffled archaeologists. It was thought the ...

Nearly nine years after a metal detectorist in Scotland first stumbled on the largest hoard of Viking-age treasure ...

A rare, priceless, 11th-century gold earring found by a metal detectorist in Denmark has unearthed a fascinating history. ...

ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3, Mediterranean—Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the ...

An amateur treasure hunter has uncovered a hoard of Viking artifacts that is believed to have been buried ...

We’ve seen it all in documentaries and dramas. The Viking Age begins as hordes of Vikings leap ashore ...

A story passed down in my family for generations may be the clue to finding a lost Norse ...

It's well chronicled that wave after wave of Vikings from Scandinavia terrorized western Europe for 250 years from ...

Medieval scholar Donald Yates, Ph.D., is shedding new light on controversial artifacts found near Tuscon, Ariz., in the ...

Ancient records tell us that the intrepid Viking seafarers who discovered Iceland, Greenland and eventually North America navigated ...

A new study questions the popular notion that 10th-century Norse people (Vikings) were able to colonize Greenland because ...

Iceland's medieval literature is rich in many regards: in Eddas and sagas, it tells us about early Scandinavia ...

Did Scandinavian traders come to Canada thousands of years before the Vikings are thought to have landed?

Did a Native American set foot on European soil long before we previously thought?

Legend has it that "viking chess," or Kubb (Swedish for wooden blocks), is a 1,000-year-old game originally played ...

The meaning of the word 'berserk' originates with the Viking berserkers, the fierce warriors who were known for ...

The discovery of a 10th century Viking artifact resembling the Hammer of Thor has solved a long-running mystery ...

In Norse mythology, Ragnarok is a series of apocalyptic events that will define the end of the world, ...