By preying on kingdoms across Europe, and then assimilating with them, the Vikings helped shape centuries of history, and their legacy echoed through the medieval period. Yet defining when the Viking ...

Perhaps their most famous invention was the Viking longship. The Vikings were one of the greatest shipbuilding people in history and their longships were technologically ahead of their time. Faster, ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even played.

So for example, the Viking word for deer is “djúr” and village is ‘bȳ’ - together making “Derby”. There we go - the history of the Norse people in a matter of minutes. How enjoyable ...

In just under three months, Gustafson and his team excavated the mound, revealing to the world one of the most significant Viking era discoveries in history. The 17.8ft long, 16.7ft wide vessel is the ...

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation ... large number of burials - not unusual in a church from this era. But strangely, more than three quarters of the skeletons ...

In this four-week short course, discover everything you need to know about the Viking period, guided by Ryan Lavelle, Professor in Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester. We've worked ...

History isn’t a canal flowing neatly ... “Age” — as if there were a single clearly defined era — is as much a misnomer as “Viking.” Mining Her Country’s Nightmares: In her fiction ...

Crampons, also known as ice grips – with spikes that dig into the ice to stop people from slipping – are a relatively common ...

Some discoveries remind us of how much history still lies hidden ... River stumbled upon a relic lost for centuries — a Viking-era sword. Two years later, after painstaking restoration, the ...

An enhanced look at the movement of populations during the time of the Roman Empire and the Vikings has illustrated the genetic impact of this consequential era of history. The researchers examined ...

The brooches are highly decorated with patterns common to the era Two intricately decorated ... filled in a "missing piece" of the island's Viking history. After being discovered in 2018, the ...