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

A new light rail station opens up in Downtown Redmond this Saturday. This station, along with another at Marymoor Park, ...

The Vikings were one of the most dominant forces ... These were probably used exclusively to transport goods up and down the Scandinavian coast and to colonies in the North Sea.

Raspberries, bilberries, plums, apples, and hazelnuts were all abundant in Scandinavia in the Viking Age ... all the gods and their steeds in full armor. But it can also fold down like a piece ...

Master of the axe and sword, the hero on whom all of Scandinavia rests. And since Freya is in our ... bearded warriors on patrol lazily wander waist-deep in thick grass, Viking armor jingles with ...

He describes what Viking armor looked like in "Outlander," starring Jim Caviezel, Ron Perlman, and John Hurt. He explains how Vikings navigated and landed their ships in "The Long Ships," starring ...

Its centre was Kyiv, now Ukraine’s capital. Its rulers were the Rus, Scandinavian Vikings who gradually established dominance over the region and merged with local Slavic tribes. (“Rus" is the ...

The Nordics share historic cultural bonds. In the Middle Ages, Scandinavian Vikings colonized and marauded throughout Europe, even reaching North America. For centuries after, the Nordic countries ...

Still, the poor preservation of Scandinavian graves, the enigmatic nature of Viking burials and the lack of historical texts leaves the meaning of many female burials up for debate. And even if ...

Set in the early medieval period of Scandinavia, Vikings kicks off in the year 793. The story begins with Ragnar Lothbrok (played by Travis Fimmel), initially a humble farmer who rises to become a ...

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 ...