Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Two friends discover Viking treasure - coins dating back 1,000 years that reveal trade routes and secrets of the Irish Sea.

The Viking Age, spanning roughly from the late 8th to the early 11th century in Scandinavia, saw women play crucial roles in ...