VIKING BOOKS

A dig is taking place in Northumberland with hopes of finding a camp belonging to the Viking Great Army...

The vikings left an indelible mark on history, particularly European history, as they raided, looted, pillaged, and conquered...

Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic...

The “húskarl” (masculine noun, meaning “man of the house")and his wife the "húskona"...

Iceland’s early viking settlers built extensive cave systems to survive...

A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...

A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to "advertise his Christianity" has been found by a metal detectorist...

One of the most exciting archaeological finds in the history of Irish art was unearthed on Tipperary's Derrynaflan Island by a man and...

Kaupang was a harbor town supposedly located within the larger district known in the literature as “Skiringssal”...

Historians have long believed that walrus ivory traded throughout Ukraine and Russia during the Middle Ages came from the Barents Sea...

One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...

Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...

Mosekærstenen is the 44th runestone found in the area around Randers, and the National Museum must now appraise the stone to determine ho...

The vikings were influenced by cultures before and informed those after, finding an artefact that genuinely adds to the picture of the Vi...

Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...

The first European king to set sail for the Holy land was from Norway, Sigurd I, in the summer of 1110 a.C....

Ninth-century France proved very lucrative for the Vikings. It was a land marred by civil war and bad harvests, and the Norsemen took adv...

There had been debates among historians on whether real female Viking warriors who fought, raided, and ransacked just as fiercely as men...

The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...

A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...

Durante séculos, os vikings viajaram de toda a Escandinávia para se juntar à elite da Guarda Varangiana que protegia o imperador romano o...

On 28th October, 1209, the inhabitants of the Welsh borough of Llanfaes at the mouth of the Menai Strait would have seen six longships...

Antes e depois da Era Viking (Século IX ao XI) os nórdicos sempre tiveram a sua reputação guerreira como símbolos de força, disciplina...

Viking artefacts were found in Bebington, Merseyside which will be examined to uncover new insights into where they came from...