With its distinct natural resources, its openness to the outside world, and the hierarchical society it fostered, the period ...

Credit: Arkikon The period between AD 180 and 550 was an era of great transformations in Scandinavia, where ancient tribal societies faced significant challenges and the first forms of organized ...

Several medieval chronicles tell of Björn Ironside, a Viking king who ruled in Sweden and Norway in the ninth century C.E., ...

A 15th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden may be Scandinavia's oldest shipwreck built in the ... They were commonly thought to have been from ships dating to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066). ...

Viking Age Textiles are the passion of Stephanie ... And I'm known kind of all over the Scandinavian world and all over Europe and the United States. I'm a knitter. I learned how to knit from ...

The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...

Visitors to the Westman Gaming Expo at the Keystone Centre over the weekend were transported back in time as Viking ...

Vikings creator Michael Hirst is heading back to Scandinavia for his next historical drama. Amazon’s Prime Video has greenlit ...

In fact, researchers believe that trade, not warfare, was the initial trigger behind the Viking Age. “The chronology is now teaching us that we can see contacts emerging between North and Central ...

Learn more about the influence the Vikings had on the English language.

Graham added: "Although the strong cultural influence from Scandinavia in the Viking Age in Cumbria is without doubt, absence of buildings from the period in the archaeological record has often ...