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 ...

Medieval Scandinavian poets, after all, had vividly evoked the surreal horrors of Viking combat ... were specially designed to pierce an enemy’s armor—these were not for show.

This highlights that there were people with Scandinavian ancestry in Britain earlier than the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods which started in the 5th century AD. Germanic-speaking people move north ...

Researchers identified a Roman-era gladiator or soldier with partial Scandinavian ancestry, offering evidence of significant migrations long before the Viking Age. Using an innovative DNA analysis ...

Weighed down by their armor, many men drowned ... the Varangians proved far less corruptible than Basil’s Greek guards. The six thousand Scandinavian-Russian Vikings were incorporated into the Emperor ...

although it also has been translated as "warrior who fights without armor." Harald is known to be a great, mighty warrior, ...

The new war logistics routes, dubbed "land corridors", will be designed to quickly deploy soldiers and armour to warzones ... routes are being constructed on Scandinavian grounds as well as ...