Plans have been submitted to install a bronze statue near Tynwald Hill to recognise a Viking ruler credited with playing a ...

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

Michael Hirst is getting back into the world of Vikings. Variety has learned that Michael and Horatio Hirst have set up the ...

Exciting News for Viking Enthusiasts Michael Hirst, known for creating riveting historical dramas like Vikings, The Tudors, ...

Long before the Viking Age, small kingdoms began forming across Scandinavia, reshaping tribal societies and setting the stage for future conquests. Historians say these early rulers borrowed elements ...

Amazon’s Prime Video has greenlit Bloodaxe, a series that will track the rise of Viking warrior Erik Bloodaxe and his wife, Gunnhild, known as the Mother of Kings. Hirst and his son, Horatio ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

This belief shaped the way the Vikings lived their lives, faced their deaths and honoured their fallen. Valhalla was first mentioned in two anonymous poems honouring the deaths of two great kings ...

The series is said to tell the true story of famous Viking warrior Erik Bloodaxe and his wife, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings. This will be the latest series set in this world for the Hirsts.