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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings have embraced a growing trend among Minnesota sports fans: cementing their local sports loyalty in tattoos. The team partnered with Green River Tattoo in ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

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 ...