VIKING BOOKS

Norwegian explorers have found two arrows, after it was left exposed by melting ice...

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

Archaeologists have identified the possible burial site of Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, using satellite data from the Polish village of...

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

Pieces of an ornamental Viking sword have been reunited after 1,200 years apart...

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....

The survey has now revealed a boat grave in addition to several burial mounds. The boat measures between 8 to 9 metres and was placed in....

In December, the UN’s culture agency added Nordic “clinker boats” to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Herita...

They were employed by the Vikings during their expeditions. How would cats help these legendary conquerors, you might ask?...

The forebears of current inhabitants are the Vikings - specifically the Norsemen who started settling these inhospitable islands around...

They began to collect countless tools, artifacts and weapons—items that had once been in the possession of Vikings...

Could a scavenger hunter’s find be a part of the lost booty once extorted by Vikings to spare Paris from ruin? A full-scale excavation ma...

Melting glacial ice along a mountain passageway in Norway has resulted in the discovery of hundreds of ancient artifacts...

Greenland, or Grœnland in Old Norse, was settled by Norwegian and Icelandic explorers during the 10th century AD, where two major Viking ...