Researchers believe the drinking hall may have been used by the Norse chief Earl Sigurd — who was a powerful figure during ...

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

Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America ... Parcak’s team is confident that the remains were most likely left by Norsemen, but she is not yet 100 percent convinced.

Discovered in Norway in 1906, the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed ...

The Vikings were Norse people who came from an area called Scandinavia. You might know it better asNorway, Sweden and Denmark. The word Viking means ‘a pirate raid’, which is a fitting name as ...

Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on the high seas, although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries ...

The Vikings were Norse people who came from an area called Scandinavia. You might know it better asNorway, Sweden and Denmark. The word Viking means ‘a pirate raid’, which is a fitting name as ...