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

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

Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating ...

Even though it’s been 2500 years since the Vikings roamed Scandinavia (and the world), they still fascinate us. So what was life really like for them? These historical facts about their hygiene and ...

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

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

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A woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death with a screwdriver in an attack that included her shoving the tool up the ...

After being inhabited only by Indigenous peoples for centuries, the Arctic island saw the Vikings in the 10th century and the Danes in 1721, and it attracted American interest back in 1867.

Despite a third-quarter comeback, the Norse fell short as Cleveland State’s impressive two-point shooting and NKU’s lack of ...

The largest of four fifteenth-century tapestries, known collectively as the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, takes falconry as its subject. Lovers are depicted strolling arm-in-arm as their birds hunt ...