From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray ... Evidence for the Vikings in Wales is sparse, but a hoard of five exquisite silver ...

There's no shortage of things the Vikings did that history books don't talk about ... At Gotland Island, visitors can walk the historic trail of ancient Vikings. The island has burial grounds ...

Uncover the fascinating Viking-age monetary system with the analysis of a thousand-year-old iron ring from Sweden.

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

In movies and books about Vikings, the ancient seafaring conquerors don’t pause their revelry to remove gristle from their teeth with toothpicks. But in real life, they did, according to a new ...

NEIL OLIVER:Today, even over a thousand years later, people still believe the Vikings were simply dangerous ... At Jarlshof in Shetland he finds evidence of an ancient Viking settlement including ...