Discovered in Norway in 1906, the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed ...

Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on the high seas, although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries ...

An explanation of how the Norse settlement of Jarlshof in Shetland, Scotland, has taught archaeologists about the Norse and how they lived. The Norse settled at Jarlshof because it was near the ...

An explanation of how the Norse settlement of Jarlshof in Shetland, Scotland, has taught archaeologists about the Norse and how they lived. The Norse settled at Jarlshof because it was near the ...

The Viking Age - when they were most active in their exploration and raiding - covers the period from the 8th Century until the 11th Century AD. Norse settlers were those from these countries who ...

Vikings would often gift cats as a wedding gift to newlyweds as well for the connection they hold with the goddess of love.

It’s well established that Viking explorers made it to North America hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus. Recently discovered evidence, however, indicates Norse sailors weren’t only ...

Viking Age Norse people seeking walrus ivory in the High Arctic may have encountered Indigenous North Americans hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" the continent ...

Nate Burleson and Young Dylan break down the Minnesota Vikings host their Summer League Flag Championship on "NFL Slimetime". Dora the Explorer announces Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love ...

There’s a chance to see 350 Vikings recreate King Cnut’s 11th Century Battle of Assandun at Peterborough’s Flag Fen next month. Hundreds of Viking re-enactors from all over the UK will be ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Orkney has a history and Norse-influenced culture all of its own. Nowhere is this culture more visible than in Kirkwall, the biggest town and capital of the islands. Here, the flag of Orkney and ...