"They didn't have the medical and dental care we do, or the kind of pain relief—and antibiotics—we now have," said Carolina Bertilsson.

A REPLICA Viking longboat is set to be displayed in York city centre before setting sail later this year. “Stormbird” measures 30 feet in length and will be shown off in Parliament Street at ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight. U.S. President Donald Trump has been maneuvering to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know only as ...

Choose to be a Norse God or Goddess and watch over the Viking people (Jarls, Karls and Thralls) in your village. Learn about the history of the Vikings and Viking life, whilst collecting resources ...

Viking Park in Gurnee was developed beginning ... “Part of the master plan is we do want to document the history of the park,” said Owens. In its heyday, visitors including Swedes from ...

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers, has a history of human habitation that stretches back more than 4,000 years. The self-governing region of Denmark has ...