Learn more about Viking culture and why new research is saying they had extensive trading networks throughout Europe and ...
demonstrating the spread of Viking genetics in the region. The genetic discoveries from Twigstats have undeniably helped round out the story of Iron Age migrations from Germanic peoples to Vikings ...
The houses date back between A.D. 500 and A.D. 950 to the Iron and Viking Ages. They were uncovered in the village of Vinjeøra and were likely part of funerary rituals that allowed the living to ...
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.
Bristling with iron weaponry, the raiders struck rapidly and went about the carnage swiftly, setting sail before locals could mount a defense. In France, in the ninth century alone, Viking raiders ...