The discovery of 1,300-year-old ship nails in a burial mound in Norway raises new questions about who was actually entombed ...

Scandinavian museums use Viking history to negotiate the tension between popular myths, archaeological evidence, and modern ...

Union City transformed into a Viking village this weekend as the second annual Erie County Viking Festival wrapped up with a ...

The image of the fearsome Viking charging into battle crowned with a helmet of horns has become an enduring visual symbol of warriors from Norse history. The problem with this image is that there is ...

One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus ...

Viking Age stories often involve modern-day Denmark, the fjords of Norway, the British Isles and Iceland, yet one overlooked stronghold of Viking history lay far north of the Arctic Circle. The sagas ...