Haunting Viking-era ‘execution pit’ stuffed with bodies found in UK including ‘extreme’ GIANT with ‘perforated skull’

A HAUNTING Viking-era mass grave stuffed with dismembered bodies has been uncovered in the UK – and may have been an ...

Lost grave of Viking warlord ‘discovered’ on English coast

A hill on the west Cumbrian coast could be the long-sought burial mound of Ivarr the Boneless, one of the most powerful ...
University of Cambridge

Cambridge students help unearth possible Viking-era ‘execution pit’ on training dig

A pit containing both complete and dismembered bodies may date to when Cambridgeshire was a borderland between Saxon and ...
HistoryExtra

How England’s first king used an unexpected weapon to defeat the Vikings

When England’s first true king confronted Viking power in the north, one of his most effective weapons became his manipulation of loyalty ...