Viking berserkers became legendary for entering battle with extraordinary aggression, stamina, and seemingly little regard ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers – and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He’s done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

Once the capital of a Norse kingdom, this walled northern city is now home to an immersive Viking history museum, archaeological sites and street names that still echo its Scandinavian roots. Few ...

Were Norsemen the first Europeans to explore the Minnesota-Great Lakes and surrounding area more than a century before Christopher Columbus? Some scholars and fervent theorists believe so and are ...