What looked like a tangle of “old wires” in a Norwegian farm field turned out to be a cache of Viking silver that had been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Norway’s Oseberg and Gokstad Viking ships are among the world’s ...

“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about ...

AASUM, Denmark — In a village in central Denmark, archaeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground, containing some 50 “exceptionally ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield. An artist recreates what a Viking woman warrior from ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

Saltvik Viking market on the Åland Islands. What countries spring to mind when thinking of the Viking Age? Chances are it’s the likes of Norway, Denmark, Iceland, or Sweden that you most closely ...

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