VIKING BOOKS

One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...

Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...

Mosekærstenen is the 44th runestone found in the area around Randers, and the National Museum must now appraise the stone to determine ho...

Archaeologists excavating at Birka on the island of Björkö, Sweden, have discovered a Viking Age shipyard....

Pieces of an ornamental Viking sword have been reunited after 1,200 years apart...

Excavations of a Viking-era site in Iceland has revealed a previously unknown man-made cave....

The vikings were influenced by cultures before and informed those after, finding an artefact that genuinely adds to the picture of the Vi...

Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...

The first European king to set sail for the Holy land was from Norway, Sigurd I, in the summer of 1110 a.C....

Ninth-century France proved very lucrative for the Vikings. It was a land marred by civil war and bad harvests, and the Norsemen took adv...

There had been debates among historians on whether real female Viking warriors who fought, raided, and ransacked just as fiercely as men...

The survey has now revealed a boat grave in addition to several burial mounds. The boat measures between 8 to 9 metres and was placed in....

The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...

A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...

Scientists pinpoint drought as a likely cause for the abandonment of Greenland's Norse communities...

Durante séculos, os vikings viajaram de toda a Escandinávia para se juntar à elite da Guarda Varangiana que protegia o imperador romano o...

On 28th October, 1209, the inhabitants of the Welsh borough of Llanfaes at the mouth of the Menai Strait would have seen six longships...

Viking artefacts were found in Bebington, Merseyside which will be examined to uncover new insights into where they came from...

The Vikings took great care of their personal hygiene and the English men found this odd and repulsive.Contrary, the English (as ...

An app developed by academics at the University of Liverpool aims to change that, and to reveal how important Lancashire and Lakeland were..

Scientists from the University of Nottingham are examining the chemical fingerprint of iron weapons from the Viking age which was used du...

Valhalla at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery will explore Viking attitudes to life and death through 1,000-year-old artefacts...

In December, the UN’s culture agency added Nordic “clinker boats” to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Herita...

Uma grande cruz de prata e ouro da era viking encontrada em Galloway, Escócia, pode ter sido usada por uma figura de elite, como um bispo...