This Viking-era action movie never got its glory in theaters, but now, nearly 30 years later, it's entering Valhalla on ...

An archaeologist believes he's determined the location of where Ivarr the Boneless is buried, along with the warrior’s ship.

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.

A cluster of 4,500-year-old sites on the remote Kitsissut islands in north-west Greenland is changing how archaeologists picture the first people lived in the High Arctic. Rather than hugging the land ...

The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ended the era.

A large earthwork on England’s northwest coast may hold the remains of Ivar the Boneless, a 9th-century Viking commander ...

Kid, meaning a young goat, is a word that was borrowed from the Vikings around the 9th century. Centuries later, it came to ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

This detailed exploration of Norse mythology delves into the complex relationship between Hel, the ruler of the underworld, and Baldur, the beloved god of light. The narrative traces their origins ...

For one night every January, one island at Scotland's northernmost tip is consumed by flames. Up Helly Aa, a tribute to the Shetland Islands' Viking roots, stands as one of the most breathtaking ...