On a foggy morning off Norway’s craggy coast, a square-rigged clinker boat—a descendant of Viking craft—glided between islands. No compass guided its crew. No engine rumbled below deck. Instead, Greer ...

The sailing boat—an open, square-rigged clinker boat similar to the boats used during the Viking Age (800–1050 AD) ... The Vikings did not navigate by map, compass or sextant.

The Viking Era lasted from roughly 800 A.D. to 1050 A.D. Remnants of the period are still being found across Europe. Last year, two curious metal detectorists found a 1,000-year-old Viking ...

Lesson No. 1: Viking warriors didn’t wear horned helmets. “Viking helmets with horns date to the end of the 19th century, with Wagner operas,” says Nicholas Bell, senior vice pres… ...

The city of York was founded by the Romans in the first century AD, but it was really put on the map 800 years later when the Vikings invaded from Denmark and turned it into a major river port, ...

Student Gustav Bruunsgaard found seven Viking treasures with a metal detector earlier this year. Moesgaard Museum. These bands, which weigh more than a pound in total, also have incredibly unique ...

The Vinland Map, which supposedly showed the exploration of North America by Vikings in the 15th century, is fake, according to researchers at Yale. The map was first discovered in 1965, but ...

Ongoing excavations at Füsing (map), near the Danish border, link the site to the "lost" Viking town of Sliasthorp—first recorded in A.D. 804 by royal scribes of the powerful Frankish ruler ...

Archaeologists unearthed a Viking settlement in Iceland that predates known human presence. The team found a 113ft longhouse built in 800, but records date the first colonizers to 870.

Viking raids on Scotland – 800s. ... From simply raiding monasteries, the Vikings soon progressed to control huge areas of the country. Video: A history of Scotland: The Last of the Free.

The sailing boat—an open, square-rigged clinker boat similar to the boats used during the Viking Age (800–1050 AD) ... The Vikings did not navigate by map, compass or sextant.