DONE! HEREFORDSHIRE VIKING HOARD TO 'COME HOME' AFTER FUNDRAISER
A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 8
- 2 min
A VIKING'S PENDANT IS FOUND NEAR KING'S LYNN, ENGLAND
A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to "advertise his Christianity" has been found by a metal detectorist...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 4
- 4 min
THE VIKING AGE'S DERRYNAFLAN HOARD
One of the most exciting archaeological finds in the history of Irish art was unearthed on Tipperary's Derrynaflan Island by a man and...
Livros Vikings
- Jul 28
- 2 min
HIGH-STATUS DANISH VIKINGS WORE EXOTIC BEAVER FURS
Identified by ancient proteins, fur was important as a trade and status item....
Livros Vikings
- Jul 14
- 5 min
THE LOST VIKING VILLAGE OF KAUPANG
Kaupang was a harbor town supposedly located within the larger district known in the literature as “Skiringssal”...
Livros Vikings
- Jul 7
- 2 min
VIKING VILLAGE ATTRACTION WAS APPROVED BY ISLE OF MAN
The project will provide an interactive experience for visitors to glimpse the island's Norse history...
Livros Vikings
- Jul 6
- 2 min
GREENLANDICS FROM VIKING AGES TRADED WALRUS IVORY WITH UKRAINE
Historians have long believed that walrus ivory traded throughout Ukraine and Russia during the Middle Ages came from the Barents Sea...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 29
- 2 min
SATELLITE DATA POINTS TO POSSIBLE BURIAL SITE OF ‘BLUETOOTH VIKING KING’
Archaeologists have identified the possible burial site of Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, using satellite data from the Polish village of...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 27
- 8 min
IN JUNE OF 793AD, THE VIKINGS ATTACKED LINDISFARNE, KNOW HOW IT WAS
One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 24
- 2 min
GOVERNMENT U-TURN SAVES NEW VIKING AGE MUSEUM, WILL IT BE?
Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 17
- 2 min
A 1,200-YEAR-OLD RUNESTONE WAS DISCOVERED DURING A KITCHEN RENOVATION
Mosekærstenen is the 44th runestone found in the area around Randers, and the National Museum must now appraise the stone to determine ho...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 16
- 2 min
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND VIKING AGE SHIPYARD IN SWEDEN
Archaeologists excavating at Birka on the island of Björkö, Sweden, have discovered a Viking Age shipyard....
Livros Vikings
- Jun 14
- 4 min
SILVER COIN FEATURING FAMOUS VIKING KING UNEARTHED IN HUNGARY
A metal detectorist in Hungary has unearthed a tiny silver coin marked with the name of a famous Viking king that was lost almost 1,000...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 10
- 2 min
PIECES OF AN ORNAMENTAL VIKING AGE SWORD REUNITED BY SPECIALISTS
Pieces of an ornamental Viking sword have been reunited after 1,200 years apart...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 6
- 2 min
A NEW MAN-MADE VIKING-ERA CAVE DISCOVERED IN ICELAND
Excavations of a Viking-era site in Iceland has revealed a previously unknown man-made cave....
Livros Vikings
- Jun 1
- 8 min
SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST SPECTACULAR VIKING ARTEFACTS
The vikings were influenced by cultures before and informed those after, finding an artefact that genuinely adds to the picture of the Vi...
Livros Vikings
- May 30
- 3 min
OSLO’S FAMOUS VIKING SHIPS AT RISK AS DEMANDS BUDGET CUTS
Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...
Livros Vikings
- May 16
- 5 min
THE LESSER-KNOWN VIKING CRUSADE
The first European king to set sail for the Holy land was from Norway, Sigurd I, in the summer of 1110 a.C....
Livros Vikings
- Apr 19
- 10 min
THE REAL-HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS VIKING SIEGES OF PARIS
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...
Livros Vikings
- Apr 15
- 3 min
3 FIERCE FEMALE VIKING WARRIORS THAT YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO MESS WITH
There had been debates among historians on whether real female Viking warriors who fought, raided, and ransacked just as fiercely as men...
Livros Vikings
- Apr 12
- 1 min
A NEW VIKING SHIP WAS DISCOVERED IN NORWAY
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....
Livros Vikings
- Apr 8
- 4 min
THE PERFECTLY PRESERVED VIKING WEAVER’S SWORD
The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 28
- 3 min
£776,250 FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED TO BRING VIKING EARLY MEDIEVAL TREASURE BACK HOME
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...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 24
- 3 min
A VIKING SETTLEMENT MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED. NOW, WE HAVE AN ANSWER
Scientists pinpoint drought as a likely cause for the abandonment of Greenland's Norse communities...