“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

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 ...

The Jelling stones are large carved runestones from the 10th century. From the year 800 to 1050, what we now know as Denmark played a central role as a home base for Viking expeditions far and wide.

Calamity after calamity befell Europe at the beginning of the so-called Dark Ages. The Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Volcanic eruptions in the mid-sixth century blocked out the sun ...

What is it about the Viking Age that drives so much interest? A common view is that it was a violent period across Europe, beset by raiding, conquest and plunder, led by people from Scandinavia. But ...

A hoard of Viking Age treasure dated to around 1,000 years ago has been discovered by metal detectorists. John Crowe and David O'Hare uncovered the hoard in May this year while metal detecting on the ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...