Quite a few stones that look like penises, so-called phallic stones, have been found. Now archaeologists believe they have ...

With their dense fur, formidable hunting skills, and an almost mythical lineage, these cats captured the hearts of the Norse people long ago. Viking sailors, explorers, and even mythological ...

The Vikings gave shape to the hull using this "clinker" technique rather than the more conventional method of first building an inner skeleton for the hull. Discovered in Norway in 1906 ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

Now sheep come and go at will, munching wild thyme where devout Norse Christian converts once knelt in prayer. The Vikings called this fjord Hvalsey, which means “Whale Island” in Old Norse.

Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of Greenland with three ships and a band of Norse to explore a newly ...

The Vikings were Norse people who came from an area called Scandinavia. You might know it better asNorway, Sweden and Denmark. The word Viking means ‘a pirate raid’, which is a fitting name as ...

But living here through the bitter winter months, Norwegians know that “Viking season” is when their creative methods of preservation and fermentation allow them to endure harsh conditions.