A new book explores how the Roman Empire influenced early Scandinavian societies, laying the foundation for Viking ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Your book is subtitled Hidden Histories of the Viking Age. One of the themes that you return to repeatedly is kind of the question of what life was like for people who weren’t kings or nobles.

"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.