Our three main protagonists of Vikings: Valhalla are based on historical characters. But the thing is, their historical counterparts never actually met. Well, Leif and Freydís did, because they ...

Nilsen has replicated both the shapes and colours of each bead from the original Hoen Hoard. "I make the beads the same way ...

While both Sweden and Denmark have Viking Age heritage sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Norway does not. 'That's a bit ...

A man in Setesdal, Norway recently unearthed an 1,100-year-old Viking warrior’s grave while digging in his yard to build an extension on his home. “I wasn’t going to dig a lot, just a little ...

Until now the rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark were thought to be comparable. Now, challenging these assumptions, researchers have found much greater rates of trauma on skeletons ...

Archaeologists subsequently concluded that it was a Viking boat burial for an elite woman who lived over 1,100 years ago.

No Viking artifacts had been found before at the property, Wintervoll said, but a Viking grave containing a sword, spear, glass beads and a horse bridle were discovered on a nearby farm in the 1930s.

In 1904, a Viking Queen was found in a burial mound in Tønsberg, Norway's oldest city, buried with a basket of wild crab apples and the Oseberg Viking ship, among other artefacts.