The Viking longship was more than a vessel — it was an engineering revolution that reshaped medieval Europe. With its shallow ...

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 ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these ...

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Dr Cat Jarman, a historian and archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age, reviews scenes from TV shows set in the Viking ...

The post How Vikings: Valhalla Showrunner Jeb Stuart Went From Writing Die Hard to the Middle Ages appeared first on Consequence. Vikings: Valhalla is a continuation of fan-favorite historical epic ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

When the Vikings first sailed to Greenland in the late 10 th century, they didn’t have compasses to guide them; that technology wouldn’t reach Europe until the late 16 th century. So how did they do ...

The famous Irish king, Brian Boru, is widely credited with defeating the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf more than 1,000 years ago. But not everyone heaps praise on the king. For the past 300 years, ...

The popular Sarasota Medieval Fair returns for a three-weekend run with a refreshed lineup and a Vikings theme. Last year, the fair drew 85,000 at Ringling Woods behind the Sarasota Fairgrounds. The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed the remains of a 1,500-year-old farming village near the ...