When did the Viking Age begin and end, and why is it so difficult to define? Explore when and how the era of Scandinavian ...

Three high-status women, though perhaps not Scandinavians themselves, were, or perhaps were not, interred there.

Explore an abandoned hobbit house in Iceland, built in the traditional Viking-age turf style! This unique and enchanting ...

Near the coast of the Norwegian town called Fitjar, a Viking age graveyard of three high-status women has been discovered, ...

Archaeology director says the piece comes "from what must have been one of Scandinavia's most magnificent helmets." ...

The extent of their raids had a resounding genetic impact throughout much of Europe, as researchers found that many people outside of Scandinavia during the Viking Age had a mix of local and ...

Researchers identified a Roman-era gladiator or soldier with partial Scandinavian ancestry, offering evidence of significant migrations long before the Viking Age. Using an innovative DNA analysis ...

Nevertheless, there was a clear shift in the eighth century CE (early Viking Age) in Zealand (present-day Denmark), which persisted among later Viking age groups in Denmark. Taken together ...

Germanic-speaking people move north into Scandinavia before the Viking Age The team then used the method to uncover a later additional northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of ...

Talking about the Viking Age is like saying we live in the Navy SEAL Era. Image All that is true enough, writes Eleanor Barraclough in “Embers of the Hands,” her survey of Norse life outside ...