Centuries before modern travelers reached Norway’s Lofoten islands for the scenery, Viking chieftains settled here for fertile soil and rich fishing grounds.

Vikings were renowned Norse warriors and seafarers, explorers and conquerors who conducted raids, traded goods, and explored ...

Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

The remarkably well-preserved burial of a high-status Viking woman contains an "unprecedented" discovery, challenging beliefs ...

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site ...

Following one of the nine St. Olav Ways, a photographer trudged with soggy feet through tundras, forests and wetlands. Here’s what she saw. A stone marker along a pilgrimage trail in Forollhogna ...