“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 ...

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.

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” “Gokstad” and “Tune”—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo ...

Since this century began, Vikings have been the subject of countless historical documentaries, multiple streaming series and the critically acclaimed film The Northman. There’s plenty that residents ...

Archaeologists have found a remote mountain shelter used by travelers during the Viking Age. The team identified the rock cabin along an ancient transport route across the Hardanger Plateau, a ...

A new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring (Forsaringen in Swedish), provides fresh insights into the Viking Age monetary system and represents the oldest documented value record ...

Ribe was an important trading town in the Viking Age. At the beginning of the 8th century, a trading place was established on the north side of the river Ribe, to which traders and craftsmen flocked ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...