Most stories of the Vikings and their gods focus on men. It’s time for the women to take centre stage: from giantesses to bad ...
Learn more about the Vikings, their lifestyle, and where the stereotypical horned helmet originated from.
To us, modern-day hipsters may represent the peak of personal grooming. But it appears the Vikings – the seafaring people originally from Scandinavia – really put today's fashion-conscious types to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, left a lasting mark on the genetics of today's Scandinavians, according to scientists who also documented the outsized ...
Just about every American child learns in school that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America--or, more accurately, a small island in the Caribbean--in 1492. What isn’t always taught is that the ...
Sept. 16 (UPI) --In the public imagination, the Vikings were closely-related clans of Scandinavians who marauded their way across Europe, but new genetic analysis paints a more complicated picture.
Judith Jesch receives funding from AHRC for a project 'Bringing Vikings Back to the East Midlands' (1 February 2017-31 March 2018). We all know about the Vikings. Those hairy warriors from Scandinavia ...