“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

“I would never have expected to find something like this on a student training dig,” Cambridge undergraduate Grace Grandfield said after a quiet field school at Wandlebury turned into an encounter ...

The Jelling stones are large carved runestones from the 10th century. From the year 800 to 1050, what we now know as Denmark played a central role as a home base for Viking expeditions far and wide.

Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...

A team of archaeologists has unearthed a Viking Age tomb comprising the remains of a shield and various grave goods amid preliminary work for the establishment of a house in Oslo, Norway, as reported ...

Archaeologists have made an "exciting" discovery regarding a large burial mound that may help rewrite the history of the Nordic region. This summer, a team of researchers investigated the so-called ...

Calamity after calamity befell Europe at the beginning of the so-called Dark Ages. The Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Volcanic eruptions in the mid-sixth century blocked out the sun ...

The group Straumfjordr, based in Exeter, recreates life during the Iron Age and Viking era.

"Vikings: Valhalla" is an entertaining series based on real-life events, but in crafting its story, the show effectively ruins a number of historical facts.