VIKING BOOKS

Óðinn is the sovereign of the Æsir, the ruler of Ásgarðr, and to whom all the Regin abide by. In Snorra Edda it is described that Óðinn...

A Time Team-style Big Dig is underway in Scarborough where dozens of trenches are being opened up in the Old Town to try and find out abo...

The secrets of two elaborate Viking graves discovered in Orkney are set to be unlocked as analysis of the burials gets underway....

Þórr, described in the Prose Edda as the most prominent among the Æsir, bears Mjǫllnir (The Crusher) and fights against the forces of ign...

More than a millennium before Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin, Vikings and other ancient peoples were employing an early form of crypto...

A near-complete Anglo-Saxon dwelling and oratory believed to date from the early ninth century has been discovered in Derbyshire...

A Viking era "piggybank" of silver coins has been discovered on the Isle of Man by a metal detectorist who made another startling discove...

Unlike other physical or astral creatures, there are many shapeshifters amongst the Jötnar. Loki was once a mare, a salmon and an eagle...

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...

Archaeological discoveries are getting closer to revealing the ancient Viking capital of Shetland...

A Wyre Forest arboretum was transported back to the ninth century as the Vikings set up camp...

The favored war ships of Norsemen were fast and adaptable to various conditions....

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

There is so much more to understand about the Vikings than violence and pillaging – as these discoveries and research projects from aroun...

The 10th-century hoard of more than 100 objects, including gold, silver, jewellery, a rare Anglo-Saxon cross and textiles, was found in...

Rare Scandinavian artifacts will be the focal point of the new exhibit at the Museum of the Rockies, opening on Saturday, May 29...

Churchtown Village in Southport dates back to the Vikings, with names and buildings from this period that still exist today...

The slightly delayed archaeological dig, that could uncover the lost Viking capital of Shetland, got under way this morning as volunteers...

Durante uma escavação perto do pequeno vilarejo de Lány, na República Tcheca, uma estudante de graduação descobriu uma seção de costela...

New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and make...

Stolen treasure worth £5,000 and thought lost forever by their owner has been discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in a county fiel...

Prior to 865, the Old English language had been developing gradually, with relatively little outside influence, for about 400 years...