In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...

The Viking Age, spanning roughly from the late 8th century ... Yet, despite their vast influence, the Vikings seemingly disappeared from history as abruptly as they had stormed onto it.

Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...

Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes. There is writing from ...

Vikings are one of history’s great cases of false advertising ... Talking about the Viking Age is like saying we live in the Navy SEAL Era. Image All that is true enough, writes Eleanor ...

At Fröjel, a Viking Age site on the west coast of Gotland ... (Photo by: Ny Björn Gustafsson/The Swedish History Museum) Traces of lead and other impurities were found embedded in pieces ...

highlighting the rich history of the Viking Age in Scandinavia. Yet, just across the border in Sweden, there’s a treasure trove of Norse history already visible and accessible, offering a ...

The Viking age, says Price, “is not for the squeamish ... Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Around 750 a band ...

Displays tell the history of the islands over the past 5,000 ... into Christian life in Anglo-Saxon England just before the Viking Age. Jorvik Centre - Explores many aspects of daily life in ...

These five archaeological sites comprise a system of monumental ring-shaped Viking-Age fortresses sharing a uniform geometric design. Constructed between about 970 and 980 CE, the fortresses at ...