In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...

In a nutshell An ancient Viking ring inscription, previously thought to require payment of fines in both oxen AND silver, ...

A stunning archaeological discovery in Norway sheds light on the status and influence of women during the Viking Age. The ...

Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...

highlighting the rich history of the Viking Age in Scandinavia. Yet, just across the border in Sweden, there’s a treasure trove of Norse history already visible and accessible, offering a ...

Vikings are one of history’s great cases of false advertising ... Talking about the Viking Age is like saying we live in the Navy SEAL Era. Image All that is true enough, writes Eleanor ...

Displays tell the history of the islands over the past 5,000 ... into Christian life in Anglo-Saxon England just before the Viking Age. Jorvik Centre - Explores many aspects of daily life in ...

Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes. There is writing from ...

At Fröjel, a Viking Age site on the west coast of Gotland ... (Photo by: Ny Björn Gustafsson/The Swedish History Museum) Traces of lead and other impurities were found embedded in pieces ...

In Viking Age mass graves in Britain ... analysis method that would provide a sharper lens for fine-scale genetic history. Questions that wouldn't have been possible to answer before are now ...

Every fourth inhabitant of Norway was a slave, or thrall, in the Viking Age, according to Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, a professor at the University of Oslo. These were women and men who had been captured by ...

The researchers examined over 1500 European genomes from people who lived during the first millennium, an eventful period in European history ... of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, which ended about 800 ...