Viking

We’ve seen it all in documentaries and dramas. The Viking Age begins as hordes of Vikings leap ashore from their longships, in a lightning raid against defenseless clerics and lay ...

A story passed down in my family for generations may be the clue to finding a lost Norse ...

It's well chronicled that wave after wave of Vikings from Scandinavia terrorized western Europe for 250 years from ...

Medieval scholar Donald Yates, Ph.D., is shedding new light on controversial artifacts found near Tuscon, Ariz., in the ...

Ancient records tell us that the intrepid Viking seafarers who discovered Iceland, Greenland and eventually North America navigated ...

A new study questions the popular notion that 10th-century Norse people (Vikings) were able to colonize Greenland because ...

Iceland's medieval literature is rich in many regards: in Eddas and sagas, it tells us about early Scandinavia ...

Did Scandinavian traders come to Canada thousands of years before the Vikings are thought to have landed?

Did a Native American set foot on European soil long before we previously thought?

Legend has it that "viking chess," or Kubb (Swedish for wooden blocks), is a 1,000-year-old game originally played ...

The meaning of the word 'berserk' originates with the Viking berserkers, the fierce warriors who were known for ...

The discovery of a 10th century Viking artifact resembling the Hammer of Thor has solved a long-running mystery ...

In Norse mythology, Ragnarok is a series of apocalyptic events that will define the end of the world, ...