In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

The Minnesota Vikings are the No. 5 seed in the NFC and ... but I think these Lions are on a level like the great New England Patriots and Rams teams of the past 25 years. It’s Detroit’s ...

This resulted in England being divided in two: one area controlled by Alfred, and another area under Viking rule ... be built to protect his kingdom from invasion, as well as the building of ...

How close did Scotland come to being a totally different entity in the 12th century when invaders from the Norse-Gaelic Kingdom of the Isles ...

The first Roman invasion of Scotland The Romans invaded ... But what else did they leave us with? The Vikings were ferocious fighters who used weapons and tactics to their advantage.

Today's Object of the Week is one of Britain's most significant Viking finds ... Viking leader during the unrest that followed the conquest of the Viking kingdom of Northumbria in the year ...

Later, with the reign of Canute the Great of Denmark — another Viking — England became part of a Scandinavian empire. And it seemed that it would remain that way. “Canute — whose conquest [of England] ...

Valhalla takes players on a journey through the eyes of Eivor, the Viking assassin. Experience the snowy landscapes of Norway before heading off to England ... chieftain on a conquest across ...

The origins of this tradition date back as far as the Viking invasions into England and Scotland, so late 8 th century. There is debate about whether the tradition was brought by the Vikings or ...

A key political figure in her own right, she gave the dukes of Normandy a hereditary claim to the English throne, leading to the Norman Conquest ... England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of ...