Archaeologists and student excavators uncovered a Viking Age pit full of dismembered remains near Cambridge, England.
Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.
The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ended the era.
The Vikings were never a single unified people. Norse societies included traders, settlers, and raiders from diverse backgrounds across Scandinavia and beyond. Over centuries, myths and political ...