Step back in time by visiting fairytale palaces and castles in Sweden that kings and queens once called home. Here are ...

It was a picture-perfect day at Owl’s Head Park on Saturday as Viking Fest 2025 brought together a crowd eager to embrace and celebrate Scandinavian culture. Under clear blue skies, the annual event ...

To trace forgotten Viking trade routes, an experimental archaeologist spent three years braving frozen Norwegian waters.

Learn how Vikings traveled the seas by way of trade routes - and how one researcher found out where they stopped to rest on ...

As far as Missoulians are concerned there are two types of Vikings: One is a Scandinavian – a historical seafaring warrior – while the other is a tasty Scandinavian treat. Neither Viking is to ...

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided about what that means.

The decorative style of the figurine suggests it was made around A.D. 800, or the early Viking Age. It was found in a field where archaeologists and detectorists discovered other metal objects ...

Courtesy Ola Myrin, Swedish History Museum We used to think of the time of the vikings, the three long centuries from around 750 to 1050 CE, as an age of expansion, when the Scandinavian peoples burst ...

They also left their linguistic mark on today's' Scandinavian languages, as well as the English language. Want to discover more about these northern Europeans? Then check out this gallery.

A more balanced view, one that found deeper historical forces at work behind the sudden surge of violence from Scandinavia that began in the late eighth century, did not emerge until 1968 with Gwyn ...

Fortune favours the brave and a lesser known fact about you is that not only are you a tender coconut, but you are also a brave warrior that dons their armour when the time arrives. More of: “Yes, I'm ...